Comments on: Picking a New Domain Name Parking Company

By: BullS

BullS — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 20:01:06 +0000

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??

By: Jamie Zoch

Jamie Zoch — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 13:12:58 +0000

@Yaron,
Thank you for the tip on Epik.com . Wasn’t aware of the service even

By: Johnny

Johnny — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 12:08:53 +0000

Bodis is doing very well for me against the big guys like Fab, Parked, DS, ND, HotKeys.com (the worst one).

They are worth a shot for sure.

By: Angela Carpenter

Angela Carpenter — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 05:25:44 +0000

Two of my domains are parked with LimeDomains.

By: Tony

Tony — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 00:34:10 +0000

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.

By: yaron

yaron — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 23:29:04 +0000

Jamie,
I just moved some of my domains to epik.com.
They are very fast to approve your domains, and will create a preview you can view before changing DNS.

By: Jamie Zoch

Jamie Zoch — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 22:56:19 +0000

@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.

By: Jamie Zoch

Jamie Zoch — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 22:54:46 +0000

@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.

By: Jamie Zoch

Jamie Zoch — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 22:53:43 +0000

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.

By: danB

danB — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 22:19:35 +0000

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.

By: Free Domain Newsletter

Free Domain Newsletter — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 22:04:06 +0000

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.

By: Ricky

Ricky — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 22:03:35 +0000

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..

By: BullS

BullS — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 21:46:45 +0000

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.