Having dug back through as I spent some time looking for a solution on which to put a few hundred domains, it seems to me that parking as a business model is worse now than it ever before has been. Why are people still parking?
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And voila, you're parked. Some of the niceties of network development, such as content, are obviously missing -- but you don't get that with a parking company either.
I'm just curious from a business model standpoint. I have a few dozen domains that are still on the native parking that the registrars provide, but most everything I have has at least some kind of little splash page, or lead capture, or three articles and some AdSense ads etc. and when comparing the income off of those pages to parking income it's just nutty to think I'd go back to it for the bulk of my portfolio (the only reason I'm looking at all right now is because of a sizable chunk I'm acquiring, and won't be looking to do anything with them or resell them until next year.)
Just wondering -- I gather than domainers are "development-resistant," with some going so far as to say that if you put a page on a domain, you're not "pure domaining" -- but the guys at SEDO, Bodis et al. are all putting pages on your domains and making money off of them, so not sure what kind of validity that argument really has.
Frank
Reseller hosting package $25/month
CSS templates Free
Rough on-page optimisation ~$5/domain
And voila, you're parked. Some of the niceties of network development, such as content, are obviously missing -- but you don't get that with a parking company either.
I'm just curious from a business model standpoint. I have a few dozen domains that are still on the native parking that the registrars provide, but most everything I have has at least some kind of little splash page, or lead capture, or three articles and some AdSense ads etc. and when comparing the income off of those pages to parking income it's just nutty to think I'd go back to it for the bulk of my portfolio (the only reason I'm looking at all right now is because of a sizable chunk I'm acquiring, and won't be looking to do anything with them or resell them until next year.)
Just wondering -- I gather than domainers are "development-resistant," with some going so far as to say that if you put a page on a domain, you're not "pure domaining" -- but the guys at SEDO, Bodis et al. are all putting pages on your domains and making money off of them, so not sure what kind of validity that argument really has.
Frank
