Picking a New Domain Name Parking Company

posted by Jamie Zoch in September 15th, 2009

Since I have started buying domain names I have really only tried 3 main domain name parking companies from the start. When I first started parking domain names I started off with NameDrive.com .

From NameDrive I moved domain names around to Sedo, Fabulous.com (mainly), ActiveAudience.com and Parked.com (mainly). Since that time I have had the majority of my domain names parked with Fabulous.com .

I liked Fabulous (notice past tense) because they seemed to payout pretty well, the landers looked clean and I liked the fact it is very clear the domain name is for sale if you decided to offer the domain for sale.

I have never had an issue with "payouts" for any of the above services that I have used. My domains have always done the worse with Sedo, so I do not park my domains with them, I just list domains for sale with them.

So I have been trying to decide where I am going to move my domains to.. and right now I am thinking Parked.com again but I just can not decide.

I have looked at several domain parking companies and by simply looking at their "sites", not one jumps out and says I am the best!

I used DNS and tried to see a trend of where people seem to be moving too, but a lot of domain names move daily all over the board! 6,700 alone moved from Fabulous to DomainSponsor yesterday. Parked.com lost nearly 2K alone to it’s own service WhyPark. 910 went from Parked.com to SedoParking. Parked.com yesterday alone lost over 3,500 domains to other services, so this makes me wonder a little bit.

I have also considered TrafficZ.com but again, nothing on the site made me all that excited and made me sign up right away.

What are you using for domain parking and is working for you Today. Since domain parking rev has dropped off so much even in the past month (at least for me at Fabulous) I am interested to hear if anybody seems to be having any better luck with a certain provider or service.

I am looking to do something and the options are out there, but I am just not sure where to go right now. Affiliates seem so up and down and I often question if they are reporting all sales… One page landers are good but take time, minisites I just do not like. Parking seems about dead but I do not want to fully give up on it yet.

Interested to hear your what you think, please do share if you care.

BullS

I used parked and then moved to Fabulous and then to Sedo.

When the domains got no hits at Parked, and at Fabulous, I put them at Sedo and got hits and offer to buy.

It all depends.

Give them 3-4 mths and see what happens.

September 15th, 2009

Ricky

Since your post on landing pages for selling domains, im slowly moving away from parking all together (have close to 250 names so its a slow move) but will quickly develop all to landing pages for sale.

Already got 2 low ball offers but its 2 more offers that I did not get parked. They have adsesce and affiliate links but my main goal is to sell the domain. Plus will see in a months time or so if it moves in the SE ranks as wel..

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Why are you moving from Fabulous.com? You allude to a recent opinion change but said nothing about why. I’m curious.=)

Parking… well, I don’t park anymore at all. To much potential reselling or developing.

danB

Much like you I’ve moved between a number of parking companies. Currently testing parked and sedo. The trouble for people like me, who don’t have Class A type-in domains is that it’s very difficult to a/b test, because there just isn’t traffic to be able to conclusively cross test the parking companies.

So assuming parking revenue isn’t that exciting, I think you can make a decision based on which service generates the highest number of enquiries. Sedo say that 1/3 of enquiries come via the parked pages themselves, so if you get a sizeable number of enquiries you can probably work out which service provides the most sales leads.

Jamie Zoch

FDN,
I am moving from Fabulous due to the massive drops in Revenue and that is the sole reason. I never was contacted to say.. hay, our revenue has dropped but we are doing X to fix this or doing Y to so this or that. No communication really didn’t help either.

@Ricky,
Glad to hear! I will keep doing the same with some, but it does take some time… but I think it is worth it if done correctly (seo) to help gain the value in the domain, pick up more traffic and focus on the buyer.

@danB,
I just spoke with Parked.com and they are willing to work with me and put up a custom header that will direct interested parties to a link I provided them, so we will see how that goes. It will take me some time, but I would like to get all my domains on one page landers that I build.

Tony

I second yaron’s post. Rob Monster’s Epik is very impressive looking. His previews for some of my geo’s are as good as the mini-sites I see. If I get around to moving my DNS servers it will be to them.

Bait and switch

When you first park at those parking companies, the clicks will go up and psychologically, you will be happy and you decided to move more domains.

After 2 mths, you noticed the PPC drops.

Do I smell like a bait and switch??

September 16th, 2009

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