Charging for domain parking and....

[Moldydish]

First question to all ye wise and long toothed - Im wondering if anyone here is paying for domain parking at Go Daddy? If so is there something worthwhile about doing this - some advantage to free parking say at Sedo?

Second question to all ye worn and trodden upon -- Has anyone found difficulties lately in registering domains or doing anything account wise with Sedo? I find there are problems when you go to buy there even with an account previously set up. Noone answers the emails either (so far that is). Is Sedo problematic to anyones knowledge?

Jen

[Moldydish]

While noone has offered some wisdom here, my latest responses from Sedo staff tell me that I cant be the only one finding their customer service something close to dealing with Telstra (or at least the aftertaste of dealing with Telstra).

Sedo responded finally to an inquiry of mine with incredible arrogance and irrelevance. I got a guy who decided to avoid my question all together and tell me I failed to register, and must now provide my drivers licence. There I was all registered with their certification, and this guy decides Im not registered and more than that I have breached some process and now must provide a licence. All of this in no way coming close to answering my inquiry. It was like a punishment for having an inquiry.

When I replied to him he sent an even more arrogant email. Not long after someone else decided to answer my initial inquiry obviously with no knowledge this arrogant thing had already done so. She sent actually a very polite and kind email but completely irrelevant to my question. In direct antithesis to the arrogant guy, she said that I was registered and sent me my user name and a reset for my password as she thought my inquiry was about getting a new password ..................huh???????????

Maybe paying Go Daddy for domain parking would be a far far better thing I could do than deal with Sedo. Still, Id love to know if anyone out there has done the maths on why paying for parking could be worthwhile???

PS addition - now a third person has responded to my initial inquiry and that person also seems unaware of the other responses. She actually answered my question which is great but now I have a mucked up account just for asking a question.......... crap!

[Marlnet]

Sedo is a domain marketplace first and foremost - if you're looking to monetize your domains through PPC, you'll be sorely disappointed by the returns you'll get there.

GoDaddy offer up to 80% (I think) of the PPC revenue in return for a dollar amount - I'm a member of the GD Club so I get it for 'free' - but if you're going to pay, then you need to feel reasonably happy that you'll get a fair degree of type-in traffic, else it's money down the drain, and you may as well get your 4 euro cents per click from Sedo...

Alternatively sign up for Adsense and use their Adsense for domains service and keep all of your revenue...! I've not done it yet as I've been incredibly slack, so not idea of how simple/complicated the process is.

But best of course of action is to throw up some one-four page websites with proper Adsense in them, as that's how you'll make the most.

[Moldydish]

Originally Posted by Marlnet

Sedo is a domain marketplace first and foremost - if you're looking to monetize your domains through PPC, you'll be sorely disappointed by the returns you'll get there.

GoDaddy offer up to 80% (I think) of the PPC revenue in return for a dollar amount - I'm a member of the GD Club so I get it for 'free' - but if you're going to pay, then you need to feel reasonably happy that you'll get a fair degree of type-in traffic, else it's money down the drain, and you may as well get your 4 euro cents per click from Sedo...

Alternatively sign up for Adsense and use their Adsense for domains service and keep all of your revenue...! I've not done it yet as I've been incredibly slack, so not idea of how simple/complicated the process is.

But best of course of action is to throw up some one-four page websites with proper Adsense in them, as that's how you'll make the most.

Thanks Paul. Good advice there.

The parking idea seemed good for me (at present) because I dont have heaps of time for creating the websites (accept the one selling my services). Everything I've read, and your advice here, confirms it is likely to be a much better return putting up websites with Adsense, than from domain parking (with ppc or Adsense). I will of course eventually go down the multi web building track.

I have found some very good domains available with apparently popular and well paying key words. I knew I would'nt have time to work on building sites with them so I thought it likely I would get some return from them (after costs) parked - not much return perhaps but a little which is useful. These domains are also in my area of interest so there is the possiblity of eventually taking them out of parking, building good sites and linking them in with my services site (which is of course not finished ...).........

Jen

[Moldydish]

Deleted this post, learning curve fast resolving issues!