28 Jul 08 Switching from SEDO to Parked.com for domain parking – which is better ?

Well after several years of parking domains only at Sedo, I finally bit the bullet and moved a small sample of domains over to Parked.com … SEDO is the far bigger player in terms of name recognition primarily because they handle a significant number of aftermarket domain name sales.

My experience parking clients’ domain for revenue has been far less than lucrative over at Sedo. Granted, many of these domains are specialised and don’t get much traffic (according to Sedo traffic reporting stats) but the ones that do generate such a dismal amount of net CPC that it wasn’t worth keeping them there.

I haven’t moved the whole portfolio (!) over to Parked but a few things I really like already about Parked :

• Dedicated and responsive account manager; just like affiliate programs a dedicated AM is very good to have;
• Smart keyword extraction and a massive choice of parking templates, images and themes;
• Smart features such as sales page redirects (that can be automated with a {domain} variable) … this way one can park at Parked.com yet maintain a link on the parking page to the sale page over at SEDO… also, custom page titles, custom meta tags and more
• Payments *twice* per month, by PayPal

The one thing I noticed up front that seems to be lacking is that Parked.com doesn’t seem to support (very well) non-English domains… all parking page ads appear to be in English.

I’ll write an update after 90 days on Parked.com….

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Tags: domain parking, Domaining, Monetization, Web 2.0