Live off of Domain Parking???

[index]

Thanks for all valuable inputs! I'm debating whether to continue to park my domains or to start doing something with them..

 

[SDX]

I can trully state now that even since I started this thread my parking revenue has grown and grown...and (depending on you "luxury of life" needs :smilewinkgrin: )
YES YOU CAN LIVE OFF OF DOMAIN PARKING!!! :yes:

 

[edyst3]

Nice thread. I learn much from this thread.

 

[stevesko]

two thoughts... domain income from traffic for a newbie, never. All the good, high traffic domains are gone, or get picked up in the drop by those much more experienced.

two... you need to constantly move up the food chain. parking is the btm., then adsense, then afiliate, then ecommerce. If you follow those rules, yes you CAN make that kind of money (if you work hard, long, and are a combo of smart and lucky.)...so no matter how you slice it, it's not easy money. IMHO!

Steve

 

[typist]

two thoughts... domain income from traffic for a newbie, never. All the good, high traffic domains are gone, or get picked up in the drop by those much more experienced.

This is bs imho, and this attitude is obviously only helpful to those who wish to deter others from entering the business.

Keep your eyes open. There are opportunities everywhere. New trends, niches and technologies emerge constantly, registries open up for landrush registrations of new top-level domains, numeric domains, idn etc. In summary, now is the best time to start.

 

[Duckinla]

Keep your eyes open. There are opportunities everywhere. New trends, niches and technologies emerge constantly, registries open up for landrush registrations of new top-level domains, numeric domains, idn etc. In summary, now is the best time to start.

You often have to speculate a couple of years into the future, but it is true. New generic terms emerge all the time. An example discussed before was "entertainmentfurniture.com" Reffering to furniture that people put in home entertainment centers. This is a relatively new term, registered in 2001 by someone who saw the market arriving. When it was discussed, 9 out of 10 people here had no idea why it would have value.

 

[Raider]

9 out of 10 people here had no idea why it would have value.

I did.

 

[PRED]

just read thread from start to finish. some good advice.
of particular note, namestrands, thanks.
will contribute a bit myself. hope thread stays alive

 

[stevesko]

This is bs imho, and this attitude is obviously only helpful to those who wish to deter others from entering the business.

No I agree that you can find good domains if you are innovative (I reg'ed one for $6 that is making $300 per month a year later- with a lot of work) but I think finding high traffic domains in the drop is a waste of time for most and especially for a newbie, that was the point I was making.

Finding emerging niche is smart but again, not a way that a newbie will "make a living"

Steve

 

[namestrands]

I reg around 400 domains a month now, no drops.. all fresh reg. You have to get creative, but I have made more money from my hand regged domains than I have buying up drops.

Obviously you dont want to park them straight away. If you want to make money you really should be regging for development and not for parking.

Many People type what they are searching for into the URL bar.

For example: Bad Credit Mortgage.

Now if you look this up in Overture you will find that 10s of thousands search for this term each month.

If you owned BadCreditMortgages.com you have a good chance of getting to the top of a search engine due to the keywords, however this will only truly work if you SEO the site and get it listed. You can do this by ensuring that if you were to park the domain, make sure it is parked using frames and ensure that the Meta and Index Frame content is rich with White Hat Keyword methods.

You can easily auto generate the keywords using google suggest. I have a little program that manages all my domains, it auto generates the description and keywords in realtime each page load, all this data is live (not from a database) ;-) You could also pull an RSS feed into the no frames section.

If you URL Forward or Use a parking Programs NameServers you are not going to benefit the domain name long term..

 

[chois]

You can easily auto generate the keywords using google suggest. I have a little program that manages all my domains, it auto generates the description and keywords in realtime each page load, all this data is live (not from a database) ;-) You could also pull and RSS feed into the no frames section.

Can you show couple of running sites as example? :smilewinkgrin:

Thank you as always...

 

[namestrands]

I would have to show you the complete PHP source for you to understand how it works, but not sure if that would be a good idea to post publicly as it will spoil all the hard work.

Basically:
Stip the Domain name down. So if you had NYMortgages.com you would strip that into a variable so that you would be left with NYMortgages

$kw = "NYMortgages";

You would then use the following :

<?
class GoogleSuggest
{
function getSuggestion($kw)
{
	$url='http://www.google.com/complete/search?csv=t&qu='.urlencode($kw);
	$string=$this->getUrl($url);
	$kws=explode("\n",$string);
	$tmp_keys=explode('","',$kws[1]);
	$tmp_queries=explode('","',$kws[2]);
	$res=array();
	foreach($tmp_keys as $k=>$kw)
	{
		$kw=trim($kw,'"');
		$nr=trim($tmp_queries[$k]);
		$nr=str_replace('results','',$nr);
		$nr=str_replace(',','',$nr);
		$nr=trim($nr,'"');
		$nr=trim($nr);
		$res[$kw]=$nr;
	}
	return ($res);
}
function getUrl($url)
{
	$handle = fopen($url, "r");
	if($handle)
	{
		$contents = '';
		while (!feof($handle)) {$contents .= fread($handle, 8192);}
		return $contents;
	}
	else return false;
	
}
}
 
?>

What has happened here is you have fed the $kw keyword NYMortgages to the google suggest and that has returned and array of suggested keywords or meta keywords for this purpose.

Then in your html code you would have something like this.

<meta name="keywords" content="
<?
foreach($res as $k=>$v)
{
	echo urldecode($k);
	echo ",";

}
?>
" />

I will not give away all the code as this is a public part of the forum, but any PHP coder should be able to fill in the blanks.

Of course should anyone want the complete concept and source to split your traffic between many programs then I am sure we can come to some arrangement. Currently my system detects if a program is active and then sends the visitor to that program. Should the program be off-line due to downtime or under attack it will automagically send the visitor to the other program, therefore avoiding lost revenue and ensuring that every visitor gets a page load regardless of parking programs being offline.

This will only work if the program accepts framed traffic, it will not work on programs like SEDOPRO, REVENUEDIRECT and Fabulous and a couple others.

 

[owenw]

Your system sounds interesting. Does it still load the pages fast for the visitor doing everything realtime and checking if sites are up, etc? Does it work for DS and Namedrive? I'm sure there would be a few people interested in buying the code/system if you were to consider selling it.

 

[namestrands]

Yes, I have a seperate program that polls the parking programs every 20 minutes and then sets an |on|off| flag.

So in order to check its a simple database query.

I am currently using it on DomainSponsor at the moment and have used it with NameDrive in the past.

To see how fast the query is just take a look at http://insideparking.com/xml.php

I might consider coding a version for commercial use, however I can not sell the Polling Software as it could potentially cause problems for the parking programs what with a mass of people polling there servers every 20 minutes. I am happy for anyone to use the XML feed to query or servers to get the status.