Making a living from domain parking

[TjKiller]

Hi everyone, this is my first post here on namepros even though I've been following this forum for over two years now.
I have some domains parked and I've been making some money with them, especially those with high epc/cpc (because 1 click or 2 in a domain of 30$ is better than 20 clicks in a domain with a cpc of 1$ – depends on the traffic too, niches, etc.)
My question here is the following [and to give me a little motivation too], does anyone here make a living exclusively from domain parking or could you live if you wanted to?
If you could complement that with some screenshots I would appreciate that ; What I'm asking is for high clicks, monthly revenue, etc.
Sorry for any mistake, I'm Portuguese (but raised in Andorra from 2 to 12 years old)
Thank you all for your generosity and transparency

 

[Jurgen Wolf]

Hi Jurgen are these cctlds?

.PRO/.COM/.NET/.ORG/.me and even .pw

 

[Jurgen Wolf]

Bro.. You don't get my point..
WIll you sell those for Reg free?
If you got 300/m for reg free, why didn't you scale it to 3K per month, 30K per month.

I am talking from a Business POV

Time, knowledge, research and experience are the most important factors to get these domains.
Not money.

 

[TjKiller]

Time, knowledge, research and experience are the most important factors to get these domains.
Not money.

This.

 

[Jim H]

Frankly speaking, it's hard to get those domain names with huge traffic.

 

[thegeekguy]

I really think scaling your income is just really hard if it was easy there should be more parking companies in business.

Think about it Voodoo just vanished. That's one of the companies we all considered reliable.

 

[Jurgen Wolf]

Huge traffic is not required...
Per 1 domain - even high xx daily visitors from the leading countries can generate significant revenue.

 

[mr-x]

You may not only lose a domain to UDRP but you may also deplete the domain's authority, especially where zero click ads are concerned. Having a page of nothing but ads can also impact sales as the domain appears as spam and may turn off buyers. Historical data of a domain is important. However, if the domain is ultra premium this is not an issue and can lead to significant parking profits. But this is rare. Parking companies make most of their money with a small percentage of high quality domains. As you have shown, most domains only make pennies, if even that. There are better ways to monetize them but require some initial investment and effort. Parking is easy, why it is popular.

I agree in part, zero click is the best way to trash a domain but some domains are valuable only because of a good link profile. For that domain zero click is perfect.

Your other points are true in part but companies like SEDO are very successful providing parking and brokerage service.

Domain quality is always the most important factor, the second is having a good rep who will promote your domains to inquiries.

 

[Jurgen Wolf]

Sedo Tier2/ZeroClick network is the absolute trash.

Use ZeroClick account at ParkingCrew (or Tonic directly).

 

[Jurgen Wolf]

Platform also matters...
Some domains perform better on ParkingCrew, another ones - on Bodis... Even with a few times difference in revenue.
So each domain should be tested.

 

[Jv1999]

Yeah, over time, more people are doing it,

It now pays negligible, unless ur the old-school

The worst, and i’m not a lawyer, cant speak for anyone, but for me, the highest risk’s TM

Dont park the uber value domains, IMO-
the one name i parked which earned me $6 wasnt my best, and involved a lot of trial error.
So the trademark aspect is often overlooked

that’s how DRLL.com was lost to dell;
it had blatant “Dell” ads, earning owner a lot, until Dell finally took action; & “no-response”

Dell took “DRLL.com”via UDRP due to parking.
I bet old owner of DRLL happy, kept the $$., mustve been a lot, whatever it was.

You don't get paid when you LOSE a domain udrp

 

[VaibhavA]

Making a living is a subjective term.

Someone will be happy with 1000$ a month whereas someone will not be happy with even 10000$ a month.

Imo..it is possible to make that kind of money but it will take a lot of investment, knowledge and effort.

It will be extremely difficult to get your hands on a domain's with type in traffic (without backlinks). Such domains are kept secret and are with people who will never part with them in their lifetime.

Then there are domains with seo stats and backlink profile. There is huge competition for that too. Those domains drop everyday and you can see weird looking domains on namebio selling for hundreds and even thousands of dollars. Those weird looking domains are seo domains with backlinks. If you have a lot of money, try your luck but remember...there is no guarantee that even a 1000$ domain with gr8 seo stats will even make 10$ a month in parking. There are many experienced players doing it everyday and those players have big pockets. So, understand whom you are competing with before entering the ring. The good thing with such domains is that even if you dont make much money with parking, you can still sell them relatively quick with very good ROI.

I have used the above technique and must have sold a couple of hundred domains in the last 5 years and made some money in parking as well..

I dont focus on parking anymore, so my current months earnings is from some leftover seo domains that I still have.

There can be another way for a new comer to make some money in parking.

Those domains can be new niche domains. Like I made my parking money mainly from domains with backlinks from Pinterest. So, maybe I got lucky 5 years back and there were only very very few domainers looking for such names. Later many people started getting into auction wars and profits started to shrink.

So, everyday there are new websites with huge traffic and people developing on them and creating backlinks from other members. So, find a new niche website and look for dropping domains with backlinks from those websites. You may get such domains for cheap, i mean, as low as 10-15$ at dropcatch dc. You will need to get them and test them. I am sure, you will find gold someday.

As the saying goes, early bird gets the prey.

 

[TjKiller]

Making a living is a subjective term.

Someone will be happy with 1000$ a month whereas someone will not be happy with even 10000$ a month.

Imo..it is possible to make that kind of money but it will take a lot of investment, knowledge and effort.

It will be extremely difficult to get your hands on a domain's with type in traffic (without backlinks). Such domains are kept secret and are with people who will never part with them in their lifetime.

Then there are domains with seo stats and backlink profile. There is huge competition for that too. Those domains drop everyday and you can see weird looking domains on namebio selling for hundreds and even thousands of dollars. Those weird looking domains are seo domains with backlinks. If you have a lot of money, try your luck but remember...there is no guarantee that even a 1000$ domain with gr8 seo stats will even make 10$ a month in parking. There are many experienced players doing it everyday and those players have big pockets. So, understand whom you are competing with before entering the ring. The good thing with such domains is that even if you dont make much money with parking, you can still sell them relatively quick with very good ROI.

I have used the above technique and must have sold a couple of hundred domains in the last 5 years and made some money in parking as well..

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I dont focus on parking anymore, so my current months earnings is from some leftover seo domains that I still have.

There can be another way for a new comer to make some money in parking.

Those domains can be new niche domains. Like I made my parking money mainly from domains with backlinks from Pinterest. So, maybe I got lucky 5 years back and there were only very very few domainers looking for such names. Later many people started getting into auction wars and profits started to shrink.

So, everyday there are new websites with huge traffic and people developing on them and creating backlinks from other members. So, find a new niche website and look for dropping domains with backlinks from those websites. You may get such domains for cheap, i mean, as low as 10-15$ at dropcatch dc. You will need to get them and test them. I am sure, you will find gold someday.

As the saying goes, early bird gets the prey.

Thanks for your sharing, you seem to be a very enlightened person
Do you think that dom. parking is going "to die" or is going to stay here for a long time?

 

[Jurgen Wolf]

ZeroClick is the present and future of parking.
If we are talking about the hightraffic domains, at least xxx visitors daily.

 

[alop]

Kindly refer to this thread

https://www.namepros.com/threads/why-domain-parking-works-for-me.1228013/

 

[TjKiller]

ZeroClick is the present and future of parking.
If we are talking about the hightraffic domains, at least xxx visitors daily.

So, zero click is when someone types your domain and get sent directly to the specified website?
Will this be as profitable as one or two click?

 

[Jurgen Wolf]

Yes, just redirect and that's all.
And I already said above, that very often ZeroClick beats Google feed (archaic PPC model), with even a few times higher RPM.

 

[TjKiller]

Yes, just redirect and that's all.
And I already said above, that very often ZeroClick beats Google feed (archaic PPC model), with even a few times higher RPM.

I did not know that
Thanks for your valuable contribution

 

[TCK]

So, zero click is when someone types your domain and get sent directly to the specified website?
Will this be as profitable as one or two click?

Zero click redirects to an ad page of the advertiser on another domain. From there the visitor can click to a website or fill out a form or make a direct purchase. It rarely directs to the main website to protect it from the same problem, devaluing the domain.

The problem is not so much the zero click model. It is the type of advertisers. For example, on Macs you frequently get one specific type of advertiser for virus software the makes their pages look like Apple site and uses domains that includes apple in them. And frequently changes the domain for obvious reasons. Very deceitful. Very spammy.

Many parking companies rotate the types of ad pages delivered and the algorithm picks which one works best. I think ParkLogic takes it a step further and rotates the parking providers. I am only guessing from the info I read.

But as nice as that sounds, none of it will not work unless your domain gets significant quantity of quality traffic. Yes, it is not just a matter of traffic, but the quality of traffic. The algorithm is complicated and tries to match the traffic to the advertiser's target audience.

 

[TjKiller]

Zero click redirects to an ad page of the advertiser on another domain. From there the visitor can click to a website or fill out a form or make a direct purchase. It rarely directs to the main website to protect it from the same problem, devaluing the domain.

The problem is not so much the zero click model. It is the type of advertisers. For example, on Macs you frequently get one specific type of advertiser for virus software the makes their pages look like Apple site and uses domains that includes apple in them. And frequently changes the domain for obvious reasons. Very deceitful. Very spammy.

Many parking companies rotate the types of ad pages delivered and the algorithm picks which one works best. I think ParkLogic takes it a step further and rotates the parking providers. I am only guessing from the info I read.

But as nice as that sounds, none of it will not work unless your domain gets significant quantity of quality traffic. Yes, it is not just a matter of traffic, but the quality of traffic. The algorithm is complicated and tries to match the traffic to the advertiser's target audience.

Reading what you wrote I remembered something, why the current model of parking companies pay us when someone clicks on our domains has never changed to we will only be paid if that click(s) converts?

 

[thegeekguy]

I think a few months ago, a couple of my domains using zeroclick were blocked in the chrome browser. I lost most of my traffic and had to unparked these domains for a few months before the blocked expired.

I have nothing against it but there more risk to using zeroclick compared to traditional parking.