Domain Name Parking: A Diamond in the Rough?

I have a few domain names that I have acquired over the past 2 years or so. Like most people I bought them because I had huge plans for them when I first saw them and I thought that I would turn it into some huge money maker and it would become wildly popular. Also like most people that never happened and the domain just ends up collecting dust and never getting used.

Most of the times people just park their domains in the hopes of receiving type in traffic and maybe a few clicks here and there. Unfortunately I was dumb enough not to park any of my domain names and instead just had them sitting there so that if somebody did type in the name they would receive a 404 error. Well on the 28th I finally decided to take all the domains I am not using and park them with Sedo.com.

I had actually forgotten that I even parked the domain names and only remembered about them yesterday. So I login and check things out to see if there has been any traffic to any of the domains. What do you know, one of my domain names has gotten 93 unique visitors as of this posting! So far it is averaging 3 visits a day and had I known this I would have had it parked a long time ago.

So now I am in the process of deciding whether or not to turn this domain into something. Even something small that wouldn’t take a whole lot of time to produce. Maybe even outsource some of the content and see if I could turn it into a small passive income or a small community with a forum. With 93 unique visits, that is direct type in traffic mind you, if I had some content on the domain I could have converted that into some possible cash.

I think I may end up doing something real quick with it just to see what happens. It’s worth a shot and it could turn into something bigger then I suspected.

Do you have extra domains sitting around that you don’t have parked? If so, head on over to Sedo.com, sign up for a free account and get them parked! You could be losing money!