Parking of Dashed Domain Name and Dot Nets

Is it worth parking a dashed and .net domain names

[JohnS01]

I am a newbie to domain name parking but have a basic undestanding of how one can make money from this.

I understand that if one has a domain name like <snip> it would be easy for someone to type that into the address bar and end up at your site. What I would like to know is, if I have <the same> domain name <snip> <with hyphens or .net> is it possible to make parking income off such a name and if so how do people end up at those sites.

Thank you in advance for your time.

John S

[edited by: Webwork at 3:16 am (utc) on Jan. 10, 2007]
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[seminole]

Sure, the search terms are stull in the domain name. Must users would actually type in <the words>. The Search engines pick that out of your name just like <the words>. I have many many domains with dashes in them and am successful with them.

[edited by: Webwork at 3:18 am (utc) on Jan. 10, 2007]
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[JohnS01]

Seminole,

My understanding is that before the search engine will pick that page up it needs to be indexed and have some form of ranking. Why would a search engine pick a parked page and put it into a position where someone clicks on it in a subject <snip> if it is just a parked page. I thought the only reason people are arriving at a parked page is because the domain name is being typed into the address bar not coming through a search engine.

Thanks again for you time.

John S

[edited by: Webwork at 3:20 am (utc) on Jan. 10, 2007]
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[Webwork]

Hello newguys/gals and welcome to the Domain Forum.

Hyphens don't do much type-in business, even some very good ones, not at least compared to the non-hyphenated versions.

Parked page domains sometimes find there way into the SERPs and the equally find their way out or into the supplementals. Search engines have no particular love for them and that's understandable since the parked pages are mostly devoid of content, 'cept for ads.

P.S. Do me a favor and read the Charter that is linked below your posts. Our policy is to stay away from specific domain references. This is explained in the Charter. Thanks.

[JohnS01]

Webwork,

Sorry about that. I was using a hypothetical although it is probably an active doamin that belongs to someone.

Anyway so what you are saying is that if a have a whole heap of dashed and net doamin names, don't bother parking them with adsense adds cause they are unlikely to attract much business.

Do you have any suggestions of what best to do with them other than host themm with for sale sign or list them with a reseller.

[Webwork]

Adsense ads aren't the same as having access to a Google feed for parked domains. Adsense has been liberally applied to all manner of minimalist websites. Still, absent some search engine love chances are that no one will find their way to your 'websites', unless you are planning to play the arbitrage game.

If you've got the time, talent and a shared server you might want to start to develop some. You can always make an entry in the WhoIs recrod to suggest that you are interested in selling the domain. For example: Technical Contact = ThisDomainForSale or something like that.

[edited by: Webwork at 3:38 am (utc) on Jan. 10, 2007]

[techrealm]

Depending on the domain name and what it stands for, you may do well in the adwords side of things - although then you might have to come up with real content.

Good news is, that I do find that in certain niches a hyphenated domain name gets double the amount of PPC clicks for the product-in-the-url type of domain (the tld hasn't much mattered here) rather than a knownbrandname domain. These ppc clicks can produce some great conversions but if its not for a high margin product you might be better off putting them up for sale.