Domain name parking is about the easiest way for a domain name owner to potentially make money with really doing the least amount and the most cost efficient. It can literally take you under 1 minute to set DNS, add the domain to your parking account, set keywords and your done!

The problem, domain name parking is not what it use to be. Not the same as it was last year and not even the same as it was a couple months ago or a month ago!

The following image may appear to be from a heart monitor…. but it’s really my domain parking earnings over the past month.

Parking Revenue

Now if that was a heart rate monitor, I would think something needs to be done about it! The same thing goes for domain parking services!

Now I do not purchase my domain names just for making parking revenue. I look at my parking revenue as a bonus. Something that helps pay renewals for my collection of fine, one of a kind pieces of art. :) The problem is… it looks like the bottom of the cliff is fast approaching that the revenue jumped off of not that long ago!

In fact, since March of 2009 until last month, my domain parking revenue has been cut in HALF. If that wasn’t bad enough… There are not that many days left in this month and my current revenue is HALF of what it was last month!

Now if that isn’t a big enough kick in the bag, my traffic numbers are nearly Exactly the same as they were back in March of 2009. Impressions, Uniques and Clicks are a near mirror image, so it’s clear the $ payout on my clicks have turned into bread crumbs.

I wish I was writing this to give all domain owners a magic cure to domain parking meltdown but I do not have one clear answer.

One thing I do know… the pulse on domain parking revenue is getting pretty weak, but what is the answer for domain investors that own several hundred or several thousand domain names?

Bulk Minisite development is not the way to go IMO, let a lone it could make you go broke in the process! I am really not a fan of the standard Minisite’s in general that include a couple pages of text, a couple pretty images and shit ton of adsense ad blocks. These type of sites are like a one hit wonder and the likely hood of a return visit from the same person is not the best.

I think you may be better just putting up a adsense Google search box on a plain page to have the user type what they want and it could work almost as well. That’s bascially how Firefox makes it’s Millions, from people doing Google searches in it’s toolbar from my understanding.

Affiliate Marketing with a domain name right now looks pretty promising because with some affiliate programs you can simply do a 301 redirect using an affiliate coded link. It’s like domain parking but I think even easier. One problem, not a lot of affiliates allow domain forwarding as they consider it cookie stuffing.

It would be nice to have a huge list of affiliates that Do allow domain forwarding in one place and if you are aware of one, please do let me and others know if you wish to share.

Then comes the "trust" issue with affiliate stats. I guess it really isn’t that much different then domain parking stats now….

If I were to think of a couple process that might work the best instead of domain name parking that are easy…

  • 301 redirect with affiliate code id
  • One page lander (unique) site that works with an affiliate program
  • Dynamic development which is not always the easiest and good ideas are often hard to come by.
  • Domain Leasing or Renting

I can say that some affiliate programs work but many do not. Another things that sucks is signing up at All the different affiliate programs.

Please feel free to share how your domain name parking is going. Are you seeing the same results I am? Tried affiliates programs with redirection? Feel like just sharing an idea?

You could always start a blog like me and have to eat peanut butter and jelly sandwiches every day and shop at the local second hand store :)