I thought parking was a dead horse nowadays. I remember making decent penny parking, but its been over 10 years lol. I don't miss it.
For the most part, it is. I have a couple domains that make $20/month, but it's nowhere near the $100/mo some EMDs could make before.
I park to gauge traffic first, then go deeper to analyze the traffic to see how I can best utilize it. Or, I keep it parked because it just makes sense.
One domain I recently moved out of parking to a forum isn't doing so great as a forum because it put it in content safe search on Google, and it was making $25-30/mo. I'm pulling a domain from parking that makes $1/mo (if that), but cost 4x ($4000) to own, and putting this one back into parking (it paid off itself and others throughout my ownership) to see if it does better, after I use it for a month 301 redirecting.
edit to add: the reason I do not pump them or list them is because you expose your position to other domainers that tend to bug the crap out of you with lowball offers.
I'll take lowball offers sometimes because it's what I need to break even due to reg fees on the rest. Otherwise, I'd have to contemplate cutting 10 domains that could sell for thousands or I won't profit at all. You gotta do what you gotta do to stay in business with domain name investing, even if that means taking an ego hit on a name or two here and there for the larger payout later.
But I'd hate to pay renewal for more than 100 domains, let a lone thousands.
Renewal on 100 domains = $1000. You could easily have one domain that a business really wants and sell it for $10,000 to cover domain fees for a decade on the other 100 (or reinvest in 10 good ones) . You can easily see how 1000 domains can work out, for as long as you stand firm, and, sometimes teach them that the domain they want will be a value proposition to them no matter the cost. Sometimes you'll get what you ask, and sometimes you'll meet in the middle. Either way, if you manage the profit right, you have a portfolio that will be profitable.
However, I wonder if he made that one good sale yet....
My last "big" sale was $400 to $7000, but I went lower because I saw the potential in what they were doing and asked for a premium-level account, no matter if they made another offering at a higher level, I'd get too, in perpetuity. Checking up on it, it looks like they made an Enterprise account with an API, which I cannot access. So, I'm checking in on that.
Good thing I have email records, because this could go to court for the name back with the cash still in my pocket.
I had to contact support just now and it looks like they know what they have to do.
Edit: Looks like my "trial period" ends in 20 years now. I'm sure they had to do it this way because they use a merchant for subscriptions, which my account does not go through.
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