Is parking dead?

[mpls]

Hi guys, in your opinion, is parking dead?

Look at my last month screenshot, there are a lot of days with clicks and $ 0 revenue. 3 clicks and $ 0.01....

My stats:
CTR: 1.5% (LOL)
RPC: $ 0.01 (LOL! But only when I'm lucky! Otherwise 3 clicks $ 0!)
RPM: $ 0.11 (Seriously??? 1k user to earn $ 0.11? $ 0.11??)
Last month earning: $ 0.09 (LOL!!!!) .

I suppose I'll move away all my domain from parking companies and redirect them to sedo/uniregistry/afternic landing page.

This situation does not make sense.

 

[toughdomains]

I made of living out of travel related affiliate sites for 15 years, but the revenue went from 12,000 bucks a month at it's peak, down to almost zero today. I find it very hard to compete with sites such as Booking.com, Tripadvisor, or even Google.

But I get what you are saying! And there must be other affiliate niches and ideas.

Do you guys think you could treat your portfolio of 200 or 500 names as an ad network? Selling banner ads or blog feeds on those names? If so do you think you could find someone willing to rent your names for a month for $100 per month? could you make $500 a month with your portfolio traffic? Is this inconceivable?
I bought a few names that companies dropped then try to buy them back for a few hundred. Wouldnt it make sense to go back to them and ask for $50 per month to run their blog feed on the domain or banners for their company on the domain? totally impossible? Is it really that hard to beat $10 per month?

 

[mpls]

I update my last parking stats.
Last days, 6 clicks
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$ 0
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6 clicks = $ 0 .
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Is it a candid camera??

 

[biggie]

this name earned a few bucks at voodoo 3 days ago:
blankblankcredit.com 2 visitors 9 searches 3 clicks > $5.37 revenue (CTR was 150%)




imo...

 

[Mister Liquid]

Do you guys think you could treat your portfolio of 200 or 500 names as an ad network? Selling banner ads or blog feeds on those names? If so do you think you could find someone willing to rent your names for a month for $100 per month? could you make $500 a month with your portfolio traffic? Is this inconceivable?
I bought a few names that companies dropped then try to buy them back for a few hundred. Wouldnt it make sense to go back to them and ask for $50 per month to run their blog feed on the domain or banners for their company on the domain? totally impossible? Is it really that hard to beat $10 per month?

Would welcome an extra $500/month from passive or even semi-passive domain use. Problem is, I have no idea how to get from A to B with that.

Parking is easy. Change name-servers and watch reports each day. But its fruitless these days. The thing with domains is, to me IMO, there are three sides to them:
1) try to sell (takes significant efforts)
2) park (relatively simple)
3) develop (significant effort).

I currently have my domains at Bodis and they allow me to use Google Analytics to see the traffic. I get good amount of traffic but I think a lot of it is bot traffic. Amazon AWS and OVH Hosting "Network Location" scanning my domains. I do get plenty of offers and I do make sales, but its hard for me to know what the quality traffic is versus the bot traffic. I can sort of tell which are scanning my domains each day. MSN is another. Every day, over and over with those three, and there are other bots I see too.. Ugh.

 

[Mister Liquid]

I made of living out of travel related affiliate sites for 15 years, but the revenue went from 12,000 bucks a month at it's peak, down to almost zero today. I find it very hard to compete with sites such as Booking.com, Tripadvisor, or even Google.

But I get what you are saying! And there must be other affiliate niches and ideas.

wow! 12K per month. Nice! Gotta be a way to find something similar.

 

[frank-germany]

Would welcome an extra $500/month from passive or even semi-passive domain use. Problem is, I have no idea how to get from A to B with that.

Parking is easy. Change name-servers and watch reports each day. But its fruitless these days. The thing with domains is, to me IMO, there are three sides to them:
1) try to sell (takes significant efforts)
2) park (relatively simple)
3) develop (significant effort).

I currently have my domains at Bodis and they allow me to use Google Analytics to see the traffic. I get good amount of traffic but I think a lot of it is bot traffic. Amazon AWS and OVH Hosting "Network Location" scanning my domains. I do get plenty of offers and I do make sales, but its hard for me to know what the quality traffic is versus the bot traffic. I can sort of tell which are scanning my domains each day. MSN is another. Every day, over and over with those three, and there are other bots I see too.. Ugh.

if you really want nothing from parking use bodis

 

[Tia Wood]

Hi

it's not dead, just not what it used to be.

Pretty much sums it up. Here are the main reasons from what I've seen over the years:

• Traditional parking pages, as far as design, marketing efforts and means of revenue, have not changed much over the years.
• More domains being parked compared to ten years ago = less revenue share as a whole
• Parking companies take more revenue share than they did ten years ago
• Less advertisers compared to ten years ago
• The traditional parking page has not evolved to modern means of advertising and what works now

 

[biggie]

Pretty much sums it up. Here are the main reasons from what I've seen over the years:

• Traditional parking pages, as far as design, marketing efforts and means of revenue, have not changed much over the years.
• More domains being parked compared to ten years ago = less revenue share as a whole
• Parking companies take more revenue share than they did ten years ago
• Less advertisers compared to ten years ago
• The traditional parking page has not evolved to modern means of advertising and what works now

and i'd add

• declining address bar usage
• and folks regging typos, of my typos

imo....

 

[MapleDots]

and folks regging typos, of my typos

HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!

OMG you crack me up!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[biggie]

HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!

OMG you crack me up!!!!!!!!!!!

it true

if i post a ppc earner, you can bet the typos will get regged


imo...

 

[MapleDots]

it true

if i post a ppc earner, you can bet the typos will get regged


imo...

I don't doubt that it's true, it just cracks me up that such a thing could actually happen.

Coffee
Covfefe

Lets register Cofefe just in case

HaHa... where does it end?

 

[Tia Wood]

and i'd add

• declining address bar usage

That's a good one. Technology changes such as that, ad blockers, etc.

 

[webquest]

and i'd add

• declining address bar usage

And the fact that the address bar is also a search bar. Browsers do a good job at showing results while a domain is being typed in which gets people to click a result rather than finishing typing out the domain.

 

[Nem0]

Lets register Cofefe just in case

I believe cofefe.com ended at auction today at Dropcatch.

And yeah, parking sucks today, even compared to just last year.

 

[Type-In]

And the fact that the address bar is also a search bar. Browsers do a good job at showing results while a domain is being typed in which gets people to click a result rather than finishing typing out the domain.

Let's hope direct navigation through voice command will be growing with VR / AR / MR headset / glasses.

 

[MapleDots]

I believe cofefe.com ended at auction today at Dropcatch.

And yeah, parking sucks today, even compared to just last year.

https://www.namepros.com/threads/covfefe-reaches-4-550-00-at-flippa.1029618/

We're discussing that as we speak.

 

[Nem0]

https://www.namepros.com/threads/covfefe-reaches-4-550-00-at-flippa.1029618/

We're discussing that as we speak.

Cofefe.com, without the V? Sorry I didn't see that discussed in your link.

 

[MapleDots]

Cofefe.com, without the V? Sorry I didn't see that discussed in your link.

HaHa, I did not notice that.... a misspell of a misspell

 

[anantj]

Lets register Cofefe just in case

cofefe.com is actually regged and just sold for $319 yesterday - https://namebio.com/?s==QjN0gDNyMTM

 

[offthehandle]

but its hard for me to know what the quality traffic is versus the bot traffic.

If you can do testing with selective country blocking and from my experience I would prevent all of AWS's blocks of IP's. It's a scummy bot ghetto.

If you don't believe me, install wordpress and use wordfence realtime and watch, I have a site with a huge 12,000 pages of content that was indexed and scraped and the crap that comes out of all the AWS area- is the worst. Bot's trying to be Go ogle and masquerading as real users. I have the paid version so blocked China, Russia, Ukraine and I even ban everything out of Germany and France too because of the bot's launching from their IP's including where Majestic and Ahref's seem to operate, etc. There are rogue bots here and there I have found all over the world though- but in general the majority I have found to land on my site from AWS. If you download the WP plugin "StopBadBots", the database is huge and you can experiment and learn more about it on your particular sites.