Is It Possible To Make Money On Domain Parking?

Sooner or later most of people and practically all the organizations face with the necessity of domain name registration. The majority of them end up with registering one domain name and start their own or corporate website. However, there are also minority of web users, who register a great number of domains, hoping to use them later or, in most cases, to make some money out of such investment. So, let’s discuss a few ways of making money or monetization of unused parked web domains. Parked domains are those, which are owned by someone but stay parked at the DNS server of domain registration company instead of being linked to a real website hosting plan.

 

There are actually a few ways of using your parked domain, which can generate direct or indirect money income to the owner of a parked domain.

 

1) Pay-per-click advertising. Parked domain is usually displayed as “Under Construction” page, but it may be more reasonable to display a page with advertising on it. Actually, some domain name registrars do so with their parked domains and share the revenues with the owners of such parked domains. So, it could be a good idea to contact your domain name registration company and ask about the opportunities to place paid PPC advertising, such as Google AdSense, at your parked domain home page.

 

2) Google AdSense for Domain. This is a specific offer from Google to monetize parked domains. All you have to do is to ask your domain name registrar to change some DNS settings, and submit your parked domain to Google Adsense for Domains. After a setting up, Google will display relevant ads and links on your home page instead of “Page not Found” or “Under Development”. Visitors’ clicks on such content will generate some profits to you as the owner of the parked domain.

 

3) Sell your parked domain. This is what most people do with the unused park domains. Many have turned this activity into a serious money-making business, based on the fact that the amount of SEO-attractive domain names is constantly decreasing, while the amount of those, who wish to enter online business, arises. The easiest way to sell your domain is to submit it to specialized domain-selling online marketplaces, as Sedo, for example.