There’s a Better Way to Make Money From Your Unused Domains
If you are like me, you probably have a lot of domains you’ve collected. Everyone gets the bug sooner or later. You wake up in the middle of the night in a cold sweat wondering if the domain you just thought of is available.
You throw out the sash and… whoops that’s another story.
You run to your computer and check to see if your killer domain is available. It usually isn’t, but something close is. You buy it and smile, thinking of all the money you will make from the idea behind the domain. That is, once you get the time to develop it.
After awhile you can rack up scores of these great idea domains that are still parked somewhere earning nothing or next to nothing if you are revenue sharing with your registrar. Otherwise your registrar is making ALL the money from your domains by putting their advertising on them.
Registrars offer parking services which allow you to make money with them, usually 50/50, with type-in traffic and any traffic coming from old links from the previous registrant’s efforts to promote the domain before you nabbed it. I can tell you, there’s no money in this model, except for the registrars who do this with tens of thousands of domains and those pennies add up for them – not for you.
An Alternative to Domain Parking
There is a new service out called “Why Park” which allows you to put content on your unused domains and actually build traffic to them. You simply give them some keywords your domain is about and Why Park puts optimized pages of content on them with a few different revenue streams on them, including the obligatory Adsense ads.
Why Park keeps its hand out of your pocket. There is no revenue sharing in this model. You just pay a one time fee to use their hosting for your domains, load all your unused domains into their system, give them your ad codes from the different ad services they build the pages for, and you’re done.
This is a far better deal than letter your registrar make money off your unused domains. Even better is you keep all the money made from each domain rather than splitting it with someone else.
There are case studies and profit examples on the Why Park site to show what your network of domains might return in profits with proper monetization.
There’s nothing like making your unused domains work for you rather than pay for them year after year hoping you’ll have the time someday to develop them.