Lesson learned

[Alex]

Frankly I was not a fan of parking my domains. Actually I started parking my first domain 2 months after I bought my first domains.

A month ago I bought dozens of cheap .info domains. Don't know actually why, maybe because they were cheap. I did not even bother to park them, as I was convinced they don't get traffic. I even started selling them on namepros for 25NP$, just to get rid of them.

Yesterday, I said to myself that I will park them who knows, and while the most of them did not perform well, I got a domain that had 37 uniques and 3 clicks, total revenue 0.17 eur. In 36 hours. I know it is not that much, but it gets more traffic than some of my good com's.

So now I will park all my domains at least to see what traffic they might get. At least until I ultimately develop them.

Alex

PS: Now I did a search on urltrends, and the domain that gets that much traffic has archive.org score, and 114 yahoo links. fyi domain is nextjob.info

 

[Vlad]

hey alex! I also had some free domains, also .info and parked them, though the .info got little traffic, a .com got around 100 vists that day, and I also earned 3Euro with it in 3 days

 

[dgridley]

Guess you don't know til you try but I never park anything.. I used to and wasn't worth the bother IMO as I handreg everything..

 

[Alex]

Well, I also plan to develop my domains ultimately, but I am very slow in developing . But it was a nice experience to see some .info 's performing well.

 

[sierra]

Guess you don't know til you try but I never park anything.. I used to and wasn't worth the bother IMO as I handreg everything..

I hand reg everything too - and park them - and get more than my registration fee for my trouble. I few dollars a day is well worth the effort for me - it doesn't hurt to - is what I feel.

 

[Joan]

Okay, so what you are saying is that if I have already purchased domains I should get the names registered and park them until I'm ready to work on them.

Do you feel that it is worth paying for the registration of the names and then parking them for say up to 6 months to get the registration paid for?

 

[Traveler]

Do you feel that it is worth paying for the registration of the names and then parking them for say up to 6 months to get the registration paid for?

You would be lucky to register a name that pays for itself in 6 months of parking. I would register as many names that I could tomorrow and double my money in a year

 

[Alex]

I said just that don't undervalue any domain, because it might get type in traffic.
I had this info for some time, and did not park it, because I thought it will never get any traffic. But boy was I wrong.

I just say don't undervalue the capacity of any of your domains, and at least test how many traffic it will receive. I bought several good .com 's that I thought will produce at least 1 euro a month, and they get about 15 uniques a month. And this .info, that I thought gets nothing got more than 15 uniques a day. Wish all my domains would perform like this.

So basically don't have preconceptions on any tld or on any domains.

Alex

 

[hmcintyre]

It's definitely not a good idea to let domains sit there and rot. I always park my domains, simply with this reasoning.

It takes about 30 seconds to park a domain once it's been registered, one minute sometimes. Minimum wage (in my province) is $8 per hour (Canadian). $8 per hour divided by 60 minutes is 13 cents.

I have to make an average of 13 cents Canadian per domain to have made minimum wage. That's about 10-12 cents American, depending on the day. And that's over all time. Anything on top of those 12 cents is just extra income if you're not working to drive traffic to those pages. It's definitely worth the small amount of time to park a domain.