Making money with domain parking
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This is a beginner’s guide in domain parking, we will explain the basic concept and talk about some general things.
If you use to type an address directly in the address bar instead of searching on Google, you might have noticed many websites that do not have any content on them, just links; These are “parked domains”.
Parked domains are domains that are registered and and owner eider doesn’t have time to put content on that website yet, or simply registered it to place ads on it.
parking a domain is simple, first you have to register a domain name and secondly you need to edit its settings to point to a company that is responsible with showing the ads on your domain name, then you wait for the cash to come in 
1. Registering a domain name
To register a domain name we recommend GoDaddy.com or our own site (turbopack.com), for a new .com domain name you usually pay a fee around $7 and $10 per year.
Pick your name, pay the monthly fee and move forward to the domain parking company.
2. Domain parking companies
Recommended domains parking companies are sedo.com and our own tntparking.com , register for free and then go to “add domains” where you type in the domains you just registered. Other advanced settings are: setting your keywords, description, etc, for a domain like newcellphones.com you would want to set the keywords like “new, cell, phones, gsm, mobile”, this will help the domain parking company to display more relevant ads for your domain name.
You are not done just yet, now you have to set your domain name to point to this domain parking company.
3. Linking your domain to the parking company
When you are logged in to your domain parking company, they will tell you to set the “domain name servers” or “ns” to point to something like:
ns1.sedoparking.com
ns2.sedoparking.com
This is done by logging in at the company where you registered the domain, go to domain settings, look for name servers or “ns”, this value should look like the two above, usually starting with NS1 and NS2 and set them to what your domain parking company said. It might take around 24 hours until you will start setting ads when you access the domain name in your web browser.
4. Where the money comes from
Now that domain settings are correct, you should see ads when accessing your domain address in web browser, these ads are paid by various individuals or companies, the domain parking company usually has contracts with advertising companies, this is something that should not care about too much, we are just explaining how it works
When a visitor on your site clicks an ad, you get a percent of what the advertiser pays, usually around 60% of what advertiser pays, the rest goes to the parking company. How much you can earn per click depends on the category of your domain name, expensive topics are Search Engine Optimization, insurance, business and money related topics, etc. The most $ I ever seen for one click was around $17.00, but this is a rare exception, it is usually around $0.05 to $5.00
Most domain parking companies will show you statistics for individual domain name, so that you can see how much each domain made per month, and after a year when you have to pay the domain registration fee again, you can drop the domains that did not generate enough income for you.
More info
Most domains will not generate significant income, usually you need many domains for a steady income. There are some domain gurus that spend hundreds of thousands of dollars a day buying domains (usually from owners), and then earn income from them over time.
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