Domain Parking pages evolve — and make their owners more money
I was trying to find ImageShack’s website today. Instead of typing in the correct url of ImageShack.us I entered in ImageShack.com. The result was the best looking parked page I’ve seen yet. It took me a couple of seconds to say, hey, this is just a PPC page!
Gone are the days of the blatently obvious domain parking page. Its becoming more common for these sites to have actual logos complete with photographs and other images. More examples: GermanAutos.com and FurCoats.com. What else could domain portfolio owners do to increase their earnings without developing the domain?
Wow I hadn’t seen anything that evolved before those are tricky, I wonder if it lowers the value of the traffic the advertising receives since the user isn’t knowingly clicking on an ad (I bet it does).
Comment by Steve — February 17, 2006 @ 7:10 pm
Good ideas, I don’t know they didn’t do that sooner. I made some cool parking pages when I used to dabble in domain trading.
Comment by Joe — February 18, 2006 @ 8:13 pm
I know what you mean, and parking / mini sites seem to be getting bigger and better (if thats the right terminology). I just wonder however how long it is though before the general / average web surfer begins to realise the site they are on is merely an ad carrying cash leech.
Though I can talk, I have 15 or so domains (undeveloped by me) and parked using 1plus.net’s mini site generating tool. I sleep slightly better using their style of web site generation.
Comment by Julia MacKenzie — April 18, 2006 @ 1:50 pm