Buying & using a domain for ads revenue

[Molly]

Hi guys. Newbie question… If I buy a domain name containing keyboards, how would I go about earning ad money? I gather that’s not what cashparking is intended for, but could that be an easy option? Otherwise, would I actually need to setup a website and try to qualify for something like Google ads? Thanks in advance.

 

[alcy]

there is nothing easy about domains. not waat selling them and not wasy parking them. most have spent years learning either. to get some results. so take it easy and work hard like at any job where u want to succeed.. there are no magic shortcuts u just need experience and work. like we all did. thinking domaining is easy quick cash is the biggest and most common error of all newbies... read np... namebio and learn expireddomains.net... forget appraisals.. use dyna for registrar and bodis for landers...post all names to dan and sedo and afternic with bin prices. do all this and it's good start. gl.

 

[Molly]

use dyna for registrar and bodis for landers...

Hi @alcy. I tried signing up for Bodis because you’ve mentioned it a couple of times, but apparently I need an invite code (screenshot). Any thoughts on how I can get one? Thanks.

 

[Sutruk]

Cashparking is good if you want your domain to appear on a blank page for people with ad blockers enabled, or if you want to increase your chances of losing your domain in an eventual UDRP case.

 

[Molly]

Cashparking is good if you want your domain to appear on a blank page for people with ad blockers enabled, or if you want to increase your chances of losing your domain in an eventual UDRP case.

Your comments have piqued my curiosity, @Sutruk. Is cashparking really that bad of an idea? I need to figure out how to at least cover renewal costs on my domains.

 

[Sutruk]

Your comments have piqued my curiosity, @Sutruk. Is cashparking really that bad of an idea? I need to figure out how to at least cover renewal costs on my domains.

I didn't say it's a bad idea. I just told you some of the consequences you may have.
Then it's up to you, to consider if it's worth to put them on a cashparking or not.
Some people say they made some money with cashparking. Maybe still making money, with domains with many visits and all that.

About covering the renewal costs on your domains... domaining is a long run game. You must think about it.
Sales will come slowly, and only if you have good domains.
Do not expect fast returns to cover the renewal if you don't have first good domains.
If you have already registered a good number of domains, stop and wait. If you sell some of them in the next months, you are in the good path. If not, re-think your strategy

 

[Sutruk]

I need to figure out how to at least cover renewal costs on my domains.

If you have handreged made up domains. I would put them for sale on sites like Atom, where it seems those kind of domains have more exposure.

If you have registered or purchased at auctions good domains, 2 word .com meaningful domains, and you want a quick return (wholesale price, around what you would have paid on an auction. Low in comparison to wait for an end user sale), put them for sale here on NP. Or offer them by DM on the Request section. Or even in DNWE, although I haven't started using them for the moment...

 

[Molly]

Hi guys. Newbie question… If I buy a domain name containing keyboards, how would I go about earning ad money? I gather that’s not what cashparking is intended for, but could that be an easy option? Otherwise, would I actually need to setup a website and try to qualify for something like Google ads? Thanks in advance.

Any other thoughts? I bought a handful of domain names based on keywords, and would like to reap those advertising rewards. Might cashparking work (and with who) given I don’t meet Google ads eligibility? Thanks.

 

[biggie]

Any other thoughts? I bought a handful of domain names based on keywords, and would like to reap those advertising rewards. Might cashparking work (and with who) given I don’t meet Google ads eligibility? Thanks.

Hi

when you first posted on the forum, i made some statements which you didn't, initially, take so well.

now i'm going to say this.
slow your roll, you are trying to do too much, too soon.

just because you buy some names that you think have keywords, doesn't mean
1. they are valuable and
2, that they will earn you any money.

you need a website to earn from adwords. and if you can't get adsense account, then it's not something you can do.

i advised before; to park your domains on sedo and use pay per click pages.
list your domains there with buy it now prices so they will be listed in the MLS, check stats periodically and wait for offers.

everybody may tell you something different, so pick one thing to do, and do that correctly for a while.

imo....

 

[Molly]

Hi

when you first posted on the forum, i made some statements which you didn't, initially, take so well.

now i'm going to say this.
slow your roll, you are trying to do too much, too soon.

just because you buy some names that you think have keywords, doesn't mean
1. they are valuable and
2, that they will earn you any money.

you need a website to earn from adwords. and if you can't get adsense account, then it's not something you can do.

i advised before; to park your domains on sedo and use pay per click pages.
list your domains there with buy it now prices so they will be listed in the MLS, check stats periodically and wait for offers.

everybody may tell you something different, so pick one thing to do, and do that correctly for a while.

imo....

Hey @biggie. Thanks for this. Truth be told, you did me a favor. I put a lot of thought into that thread, and was able to slow my roll (a bit). I recognize I’m not doing myself any favors.

I appreciate that you were willing to help with tough words. It was a good message; I think it was just the wording of one sentence that I took offense to.

Now, I need to stick to my commitment before I actually do break the bank. I don’t want to be the reason this experiment fails, if that makes sense.

 

[MediaCode]

Hey @biggie. Thanks for this. Truth be told, you did me a favor. I put a lot of thought into that thread, and was able to slow my roll (a bit). I recognize I’m not doing myself any favors.

I appreciate that you were willing to help with tough words. It was a good message; I think it was just the wording of one sentence that I took offense to.

Now, I need to stick to my commitment before I actually do break the bank. I don’t want to be the reason this experiment fails, if that makes sense.

Hi Molly,

I've not fiddled with parking. Instead, I have found decent results generating an income from domain names via affiliate marketing. Basically, I find domain names with existing, qualified traffic and simply forward those domain names to an affiliate marketing landing page provided by the company I've signed up with as an affiliate. See eaasupplements.com and mortgagecashoutrefi.com as two examples.

In short, some people out there bypass Google by typing in keywords that relate to what they are looking for and then tacking on .com just to see what is there. If they like what they see, they buy, and you get a commission as an affiliate. It could be 5% to 40% of the sales price or a fixed, flat fee per sale. Transactions are often few and far between but the payouts are much higher than parking when they do occur.

The key to success with affiliate marketing is two-fold:

1) Finding affiliate marketing companies that will take you on without you having a completely built out website and just a couple of domain names to forward. Many of these companies don't like an affiliate partner simply forwarding domain names as a marketing solution for their brands;

and

2) Finding and buying domain names with existing, qualified traffic and testing out the traffic to see if any of it converts over 12 months. Keep the few domains that generate income (pay for themselves) over 12 months and ruthlessly drop the duds. Over the years, build up a portfolio of 'keepers' that consistently generate income for you and you've got a nice little generator of passive income.

While that sounds great, it can be a lot of risk-taking in paying up for domain names with traffic only to find out they don't convert at the affiliate marketing landing page(s) you forward them to. All you can do is take financial risks in buying, test domains/landing pages and learn what works, keep renewing the domains that pay out, and dump the domains that don't.

 

[Molly]

Hi Molly,

I've not fiddled with parking. Instead, I have found decent results generating an income from domain names via affiliate marketing. Basically, I find domain names with existing, qualified traffic and simply forward those domain names to an affiliate marketing landing page provided by the company I've signed up with as an affiliate. See eaasupplements.com and mortgagecashoutrefi.com as two examples.

In short, some people out there bypass Google by typing in keywords that relate to what they are looking for and then tacking on .com just to see what is there. If they like what they see, they buy, and you get a commission as an affiliate. It could be 5% to 40% of the sales price or a fixed, flat fee per sale. Transactions are often few and far between but the payouts are much higher than parking when they do occur.

The key to success with affiliate marketing is two-fold:

1) Finding affiliate marketing companies that will take you on without you having a completely built out website and just a couple of domain names to forward. Many of these companies don't like an affiliate partner simply forwarding domain names as a marketing solution for their brands;

and

2) Finding and buying domain names with existing, qualified traffic and testing out the traffic to see if any of it converts over 12 months. Keep the few domains that generate income (pay for themselves) over 12 months and ruthlessly drop the duds. Over the years, build up a portfolio of 'keepers' that consistently generate income for you and you've got a nice little generator of passive income.

While that sounds great, it can be a lot of risk-taking in paying up for domain names with traffic only to find out they don't convert at the affiliate marketing landing page(s) you forward them to. All you can do is take financial risks in buying, test domains/landing pages and learn what works, keep renewing the domains that pay out, and dump the domains that don't.

Hi @MediaCode. Thanks for this! Super helpful, and that sounds almost perfect. The trouble is, I don’t know how to qualify for something like this. I have a ~450 domain portfolio on a WLM, using a misspelled domain name, and it gets over 5K hits a month. However, only one has resulted in a sale in my three months of trying. I also don’t know how to put up one-page landing pages, but it sounds like your affiliates do that for you…? Thanks again.