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Domain Parking Explained
By Allan Burns
Domain names are being snapped up
all the time so if you have thought of a cool domain name for a
future project then it might be wise to register it now. There is a
chance that if you leave it too late someone else may register it.
While your planning your site you can park the domain name.
Domain parking is a process where you register a domain and do not
enter the domain name servers of your hosting company. Usually the
domain registrar will park your domain by default on their server,
this means that if you type your domain name into a web browser you
will arrive at a default page provided by the registrar.
If you are going to hold onto the domain for a while or not develop
a site straight away then you may want to consider a domain parking
service that offers you revenue from your parked domain. Domain
parking services such as
Traffic parking and
sedo offer revenue
sharing from your parked domain.
Revenue sharing from a parked domain works by traffic being directed
to a search page or pay per click page where any visitors to your
parked domain may click on the ads and you receive a percentage of
the revenue from this.
Traffic parking claims that a parked domain receives on average 8
hits per month but a popular domain name may get thousands of
visitors due to direct type ins and miss typed domains. Unless you
have a popular domain name it probably isn't worth the effort to use
a revenue sharing parking service and just use your registrars
default parking page.
So domain parking is a process where you register a domain and leave
it until you are ready to use it. You may or may not have a parking
page where any stray visitors will see a default host parking page
or if you use a domain parking service an ad targeted page.
Allan is the webmaster at
NameSearchDomain.com where you can find out all about Domain names.
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