Parking vs development
I recently bought a few domains and developed them. I have been watching them climb up in the search engines and see increased traffic. However, what I learned in the past few months is that one's portfolio can grow large very fast. Development takes time/effort and money. Also, many domain names become expensive to renew. Therefore, I started to understand why domain names with type-in traffic are really valuable. Until I start developing them they will keep paying off the money I spent for them. If a domain does not have type-in traffic there is also not much demand. Once in a while someone can come and give a good offer to a domain name without type-in traffic, but those cases are really rare. If, on the other hand, a domain name is already generating parking dollars, then, not only it is easy to flip it in case you need some cash, but also, such domains are easier to brand if you develop down the road. But truly generic domain names with type-in traffic are very rare. In auctions like DT, as I summarized earlier, only few of them are likely to generate parking money and are really valuable. Well, these are my thoughts though as I shared earlier, I still have a lot to learn.
In order to stay on the safe side, if I buy something I really make sure that it has high CPC, not very long and high overture/wordtracker search numbers.
