Just Some Bloke

I’m new to this business of domaining.  So far I’ve collected only 80 or so names.  After reading lots of blog posts and news articles it appears some folks are pure domain parkers and some like to develop their names into micro sites.  I played around a bit with Sedo.com parking and I got a bad feeling I was being ripped off.  The number of unique visitors vs the revenue just didn’t seem to add up…so I built my own parking system using a database, web templates, and Google AdSense.   My income increased by 1000%.  I’d love to hear from anyone with a similar experience.   Maybe someone can recommend a better parking system or share their general thoughts.

I’ve decided to take a 3 pronged approach to domaining.  The first prong is my parking system described above.  The second involves building what I call “traffic generators”.  These are sites with many pages of useful real data that will hopefully get indexed in the search engines and drive traffic to my network.  An example is my semantic dictionary reference site.  I’m hoping that by launching 1 site per month using this approach I can smooth out my income stream and hedge against my parking strategy.  The third strategy involves building more sophistcated parking tools using XML APIs like the eBay developer program, Shopping.com XML API, Amazon Web Services, etc.  The goal here is to be able to quickly deploy web sites for product related domain names and earn income through affiliate marketing.  Please leave comments and let me know your thoughs on above.  Cheers,  -Some Bloke