advice I'm looking to park my first domain. Starvucks.com?

[Grilled]

Hey DN,

I have yet to park a domain, but from what I've been reading, my understanding is you want something with type in traffic. Would StarVucks.com accomplish that?

The Global brand similar to this is ranked 434 Globally, and 434 in the United States according to Alexa. That domain is one letter off from my domain; I'm pretty sure you know what I'm talking about by now. Adwords receives 1,600 monthly searches for Starvucks.

Is this domain a bust, a suitable domain to park, or something to try and sell to the larger brand the sounds like Starvucks? I'm sure this is somewhere in the many NP threads, but if somebody could answer what factors you look for in a good domain to park, or point me to a previous thread, I'd appreciate it.

Thanks!

 

[JB Lions]

As with all of our brand relationships, they have agreed to let domain owners profit from the traffic their domain produce. The brand have also agreed not to know the identity of the domain owner. They just want to protect their customer experience and ensure that customers get to the website they were wanting to visit in the first place.

When you say relationships with companies. Are you talking about relationship with the affiliate manager that runs the affiliate program or somebody actually in charge of things, higher up. Big difference. Sometimes the affiliate program is such a small part of what's going on, especially with big companies. If it's affiliate manager, you might be alright with them, because it makes their numbers look good but it doesn't mean you have cover from the people in charge of protecting their brand.

 

[Marlon Phillips]

For each organization the relationships differ. We don't provide cover in any way. Just an anonymous way to monetize your traffic in a way that has been previously not allowed.

 

[ulterios]

And there seems to be a general concensus that you have to call to delete.

You can delete them any time, you just won't get a refund at most after 3-5 days.

In GoDaddy to delete a domain just go to your domains control panel, tick the box next to the domain and go to the tools bar at the top of the domains list, hover on top of where it says "More". The drop-down menu will have an option that says "Delete Domain". Click that and follow the step. That's it.

For a Grace Delete (within 5 days of registering) you have to call or talk to live chat support the last time I checked.

 

[silentg]

This is such a bad idea. Risks outweigh benefits. Drop it and find a better domain.

 

[Willox Perez]

My rule of thumb is to park every domain you own. At first this was not the case as I was not familiar with the benefits of parking your domain.

#1 You can test out the natural traffic it gets and keep track of daily visits
#2 You can probably make the yearly reg fee and anything after is a bonus
#3 You can put a for sale banner so interested buyers can contact you

A lot of the parking services offer traffic tracking which is great to test out how good the domain is based on the amount of visits it receives. In your case you have a misspelled of a very popular brand so you will get some type in traffic. The only thing I would tell you off the bat is that it can be considered copyright infringement if the company decides to go after you.

Generic dictionary type of domains tend to do very well when you park them especially if they are short amount of characters. Definitely try out some of the platforms out there and see how it goes. Setting up the parking is very simple and easy as well.

-Will

 

[pablohc86]

You can monetize StarVucks.com at Protected Parking. We have a deal with the Starbucks affiliate program (and over 250 other major brands) that allows our clients to monetize their brand typos directly on the brands website. As you can imagine, conversions and payout are quite high. We also have brands like hotels.com, Expedia.com, American Express, etc.

So do you mean if I can buy domain like:

Maseratiusa.com (Maserati)
JaguarDubai.com (jaguar)
Gerrari.com (Ferrari)

I can monetize them with your service and have any legal problems?


About parking:
From what I've seen and read around here seem that there is an huge number of domainers regging domains with possible:
TM violation, copyright infingerprint, business conflict and many other legal issues.
Also with small business, site like for example chatrubate.com

I tend to avoid any name that could have any legal issue. Then am I wrong refusing those kind of money also with little businesses or is always better stay away?

 

[Marlon Phillips]

So do you mean if I can buy domain like:

Maseratiusa.com (Maserati)
JaguarDubai.com (jaguar)
Gerrari.com (Ferrari)

I can monetize them with your service and have any legal problems?


About parking:
From what I've seen and read around here seem that there is an huge number of domainers regging domains with possible:
TM violation, copyright infingerprint, business conflict and many other legal issues.
Also with small business, site like for example chatrubate.com

I tend to avoid any name that could have any legal issue. Then am I wrong refusing those kind of money also with little businesses or is always better stay away?

As state before, We don't provide cover in any way. We provide an alternative to monetize your traffic in a way that has been previously not allowed. We only work with brands that have expressly agreed to receive this traffic because they want to protect their brand and the customer journey.

 

[pablohc86]

Wow it seem a new and good idea. What is the name of your service? I'm curious to give a look.
Is it expressly declarated what are the partner brand that allow monetization?

Thanks

 

[dordomai]

keep in mind that a lot of tmsquatters live outside the us in countries with far different laws which gives them a certain protection. if you live in the US a court can decide that you owe them up to 100k for each infringing domain and you may have to pay that.

For example it was decided that a Chinese had to pay namecheap.com seven figures for his typosquatting names. In practice they will never be able to collect that payment.

I don't see how this is a good strategy.If you want to make serious money you have to buy many infringing domains. If you don't earn much money with that strategy what's the point of taking the risk?

for one single domain the risk may or may not be low. if you buy a lot of domains it is a lot riskier.

the worst seen outcome for brand squatting is jail. it's very unlikely though i would say.

As state before, We don't provide cover in any way. We provide an alternative to monetize your traffic in a way that has been previously not allowed. We only work with brands that have expressly agreed to receive this traffic because they want to protect their brand and the customer journey.

from my understanding the legal risk monetizing TM domains is not any lower with that program. The advantage for the brands is that they get a a large share of the profits of the domainer. It only helps the domainer if revenue is higher than with parking.

 

[DGoodwin]

I just started parking domains today for the very reasons you stated, Willox Perez.
And I would just go ahead and delete the typo if I were you Grilled Jesus.