Author: Trevor John

Domain parking is the technical term for what you do between
buying your domain name and getting round to doing something
with that domain.

Chances are, you've got a number of domains that are parked,
waiting for you to bring them to life.

There are various cheap domain parking services around. Some of
these cheap domain parking services will help you to get some
income out of your domain. Others will just help it to sit
there, gathering virtual dust.

The cheapest domain parking service is your domain name
registrar. In fact, if you didn't complete any name server
details when you purchased your domain, chances are that you are
advertising your domain name registrar for free.

The next cheapest domain parking service is your web host. If
all you've done is set up the domain with your web host and
pointed the name servers at the host, chances are that you will
get a page that says something really interesting like "This
domain is reserved for one of our customers". Gee!

If neither of those appeal, there are professional domain
parking services like Sedo.com. They're cheap to join - all it
takes is a few minutes of your time - but in my experience the
promised revenue turns into very little indeed. Maybe if you've
got a domain with a high level of type in traffic then your
mileage may vary. But for us mere mortals, I personally don't
rate sedo.com for parking domains.

Finally, there are some paid-for services that will actually do
something with your parked domain. You can search your favorite
search engine for these. Some of the ones I've found, like
seguinhost.com, charge a monthly fee. Which is OK if you make a
decent amount of money from the domains. The sites created won't
be exactly the best in the world - the samples I've looked
definitely wouldn't win a web beauty contest. But, that said, if
all you're looking for is cheap domain parking where you stand a
chance of earning some money until you get round to doing
something real with your domain name, then they're well worth
checking out.

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