Parking Domains

[cuid]

Seems to me that parked domains are usually parked because they are not "good" domain names.

How would traffic arrive at a parked domain named "widgetsaregood.com" for example?

Is parked domain traffic just typein traffic?

Thanks

[MamaDawg]

- type in traffic
- existing links from prior usage
- search engine traffic (occasionally)

[piatkow]

and in a few instances they are not expecting traffic because they bought the domain before building the site.

[dodo1]

The assumption that parked domain = bad domain certainly isn't true. There are many high-quality domains that are currently parked. For example, Medicine.com, Stocks.com, Home.com, Songs.com, Tourism.com, EatingDisorder.com and thousands of others.

Many domain owners decide to park their domains, because they haven't had the time to develop the domain name, yet. You must know that some domain owners hold portfolios with thousands of domains, so they cannot develop every one of them.

As for the traffic, parking companies and advertisers prefer type-in traffic. This type of traffic (also called direct navigation traffic) seems to be most valuable as it is well-converting. But parked domains sometimes receive link and search engine traffic, too, if they were developed before, for example.

[jmccormac]

A lot of web hosters will automatically park unused and undeveloped domains. In some of the newer TLDs, there are more domains parked than there are active websites.

These are the results from a web survey of .mobi that I ran about two weeks ago:

Number of .mobi domains in survey: 927369
Number of .mobi websites responding: 683584

type ¦ sites ¦
+---------+---------+
¦ F ¦ 3754 ¦ Forbidden/payment required
¦ X ¦ 4042 ¦ Porn
¦ S ¦ 5434 ¦ For Sale
¦ N ¦ 6329 ¦ Networks of sites (duplicate content)
¦ U ¦ 6352 ¦ Unavailable
¦ B ¦ 11274 ¦ Brand protection registrations
¦ D ¦ 15295 ¦ Dead sites/domains
¦ R ¦ 58933 ¦ Redirects (not classified yet)
¦ H ¦ 59272 ¦ Holding Pages (coming soon etc)
¦ A ¦ 69841 ¦ Active (HTTP 200)
¦ P ¦ 443068 ¦ Parked/PPC

The Active count and the Redirect counts will change as the data is processed.

A Brand Protection registration is often the .mobi/mobile web version of an existing site. Some of the redirects are redirects to the mobile web version of a site.

Regards...jmcc

[RobertaB24]

Many people park their domains , huge portofolios of thousands of domains because the income from parking can sometimes be huge depending on the quality of the domains. Developing a site can sometimes take years till it becomes established and it can generate a good income, where parking a domain like Medicine.com can bring the cash in much faster.

[trader]

I have a lot of developed sites but I still park some of my best names mostly because my parking page CTR's are almost 10 times greater than a developed site running Adsense or YPN. That is a huge difference!

[Surfer99]

Hi Trader Im new to this domain parking stuff. Who would you recommend for parking domains and what sort of rates would I be looking at.