Domain Parking?

By Tanya A Smith

What does domain parking mean?

Many times individuals as well as businesses register names to use in the future. In some other cases, they may register these names if they plan to modify their business in the future. Some other people may register names with different kinds of extensions in order to avoid competition from other people. The domain needs to be parked or stored somewhere when it is registered if it is not going to be hosted. This is where domain parking plays a role. Domain parking is when a domain name is stored or parked somewhere without being hosted.

Different reasons to park the domain name

· It is helpful if you register a domain name for use in the future and don't want to develop or host a site on it immediately.

· It will be helpful if you have a.com name and you register all the other extensions for that domain in order to prevent competition

· It can be helpful if you have an established brand and you don't want any cyber squatter to misuse the name by creating a website in your brand's name.

· It can be used if you want to register all the typos and spelling mistakes that people may make while typing your name so that it cannot be used by others.

· It can be helpful if you invest in a domain name.

· It can be used if you want to earn revenue through advertisements on a "coming soon" website.

Kinds of Domain Name Parking

There are two main types of parking. They are monetized and non monetized parking. A monetized domain name would have an under construction page with advertisements shown to anyone who visits the page. Any revenue that is earned from these advertisements is earned by the person in whose name the is registered.

A non monetized domain name on the other hand may or may not have an under construction page. even if there is an under construction page, it may not have any kind of advertisements or any other messaging that may earn the owner of the domain any revenue.

What is Monetized Domain Parking?

You can earn a lot of money if you own a common generic domain name which has a keyword that is commonly searched for by people. This kind of a domain name will be wanted by many business owners and they would not paying any amounts of money to own it. Even if you have no intention of selling it, a parked domain name with many searches for it can generate a large amount of traffic because of people just typing in the name or the keyword within it in the browser. This traffic will help you earn a large amount of advertising revenue if the name is registered to you. If you choose the correct type of domain name and park it for future use.

Tanya Smith is an expert on cheap domain name registration and web hosting at Ballistic Domains, USA. Ballistic Domains provides cheap domain name registration, domain transfer, domain parking, dedicated web hosting and related services.

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