+1
I'm one of the folk above. I switched all my domains from parking to a lander with a buy or lease option. Best thing I've ever done.
Like many, in the past I made close to $1,000 per month on ads from parking. When the downturn occurred, it dropped down to $200-$300 per month, and I also had a UDRP issue originating from the parking page ads. So I was ready to get rid of parking and just drop users onto a Buy Now page to focus on sales.
While exploring options, I found Epik's lease option. It's been a few years since I started using Epik and switched to the buy/lease lander page, I'm now at close to $1,500 per month from lease income between Epik.com and Escrow.com.
My advice: you get sales from 3 main sources. Your landing page (fix this first), whois info, and Afternic.
- Create a simple lander or use undeveloped (they even let you list epik.com's lease option as a built in option).
- At minimum, say in your whois that the domain is for sale
- List your domains on Afternic (PREMIUM NETWORK OPTION) - they show up on every major registrar if someone types in your domain. If you are not doing this, you are missing out on ridiculous amounts of income.
- List your domains on Sedo (optional last step - has only resulted in 1-2 sales per year for me)
To get to $10k per month, just reverse the math and do one of the following:
- Sell 11-12 domains per month at $1,500 a piece (you need 9,000 good domains)
- Sell 1.7 higher quality domains per month for $10,000 a piece (you need between 2,000-4,000 great domains)
- Something in between these 2 models