To Park or Develop Your Domain Name

Development can be a long road with an uncertain future as far as having your website generate revenue. For many people developing a quality website when they have zero web design skills seems impossible. On the other hand Parking your domain and waiting around for people to type its name in their toolbar or for someone to offer to puchase it can be time consuming and ultimately just as unprofitable.

So what to do?

Try reading the following article from Domain Name Journal. It not only explores some of your options but points to some interesting resources, such as SmartName.com which lets you park your domains AND add content.

Repaving the Parking Lot: Have Domain Developers Won the Debate? Page 2:

Minnesota’s DanMcCullough... “I started developing my domains a few years ago when I realized that sitting on the domains waiting for buyers wasn't all that appealing or financially rewarding for me. I needed my domains to generate revenue flows from more access points instead of just the one that most domains have. Most domains have traffic at 'exampledomain.com' and that's it. When developed that domain can have unlimited access points for traffic as in 'exampledomain.com/page1', 'exampledomain.com/page2, etc,' McCullough said.

'I've used this strategy even on generic typos. Take creditcounsler.com for example. When parked that domain brought in around 35 visitors a month, but just by adding 60 pages of content the site now has 60 access points from which it generates traffic (and revenues) far greater than it would ever get just sitting parked.' "