GoDaddy Cash parking VS the rest

[emega]

I have signed up for godaddy's cash parking program. I heard all the critics saying "how can they charge a signup fee? Why pay 25 bucks a month for 80% payout when I can go to namedrive or sedo or fabulous and earn 80% payout for free?"

Well, after researching the situation, I have come to conclusion that- perhaps godaddy has more advertisers that the other programs, or maybe I am wrong about that comment, but I do know that godaddy made a deal with google in offering this cash parking service, so perhaps there are more advertisers/generally higher paying clicks at godaddy than the rest?

I have several domains parked with godaddy, one domain of mine made 30 cents this month and had 8 clicks at 4 cents a month. Another domain of mine had 1 click at .35 cents for the click, another made 7.00 and had over 40 clicks, or so, averaging 15 cents a click.

I look forward to hearing an expert's response on this crucial cash parking debate.

 

[.X.]

far from an expert here,But i did try thier parking myself...I did get more uniques,My PPC was lower than sedopro...all in all ....I think it's a decent parking program...The having to pay $3.99 a month wasn't appealing...but then...my results of the traffic tasting i did there wasn't bad either.

 

[oscWork]

Well, (again im no expert) but Sedo also use Google for their adverts and im averaging 0.86 euro per click, i can't see any good reason to pay a monthly fee to use godaddy

 

[emega]

What you all are saying is not proving anything, if you get .86 euro a click at sedo, that doesn't mean that every domain will make that much. I have a domain at godaddy that makes .35 a click and then I have another name that makes .04 a click. I beleive that the reason why godaddy charges there 3.99 is because they can, since they are a large company and will attract more advertisers, that will be willing to pay more money per click.

I don't have proof that this is true, but this is what makes sence. Of course it is also possible that sedo or namedrive may have more advertisers than godaddy that are willing to pay more money per click, but of course we will never know the answer to this question unless someone tests out the same domain name on all 3 services. I don't think it is fair to say godaddy.com is a rip off, unless you test it out for yourself. It is honostly enough, the idiots who bash godaddy saying they have 10 domains registered there and made 0 cents, are idiots, because that means that they did not promote their domains.

Note:
In the market of cash parking its all about promoting your names. The only exception is if you have something general like buydomains.com in which someone looking to buy domains might type this name in their browser. Otherwise nice name like couponsteal.com will not get traffic on their own, and you can't expect them too.

 

[.X.]

What you all are saying is not prooving anything, if you get .86 euro a click at sedo, that doesn't mean that every domain will make that much. I have a domain at godaddy that makes .35 a click and then I have another name that makes .04 a click. I beleive that the reason why godaddy charges there 3.99 is because they can, since they are a large company and will attract more advertisers, that will be willing to pay more money per click.

I don't have proof that this is true, but this is what makes sence. Of course it is also possible that sedo or namedrive may have more advertisers than godaddy that are willing to pay more money per click, but of course we will never know the answer to this question unless someone tests out the same domain name on all 3 services. I don't think it is fair to say godaddy.com is a rip off, unless you test it out for yourself. It is honostly enough, the idiots who bash godaddy saying they have 10 domains registered there and made 0 cents, are idiots, because that means that they did not promote their domains.

Note:
In the market of cash parking its all about promoting your names. The only exception is if you have something general like buydomains.com in which someone looking to buy domains might type this name in their browser. Otherwise nice name like couponsteal.com will not get traffic on their own, and you can't expect them too.

SedoPro makes more PPC than just plain sedo....i get the highest bidders ads on my landing pages....That would be the difference in the ppc at sedopro vs godaddy parking....My names also get more exposure via sedopro aswell

 

[DNWizardX9]

Many parking programs use Google as their supplier emega. You probably won't notice the difference in payout unless you send them tons of traffic. Also, it's lame that Godaddy requires a monthly fee to use their service.

 

[namey]

Also, it's lame that Godaddy requires a monthly fee to use their service.

I agree and I bet eventually godaddy will drop the monthly fee.

 

[ZuraX]

Hey I was just looking at the reseller plans on GoDaddy. I thought they use to allow you to "park" the domains people buy through your reseller account and you earned money for any clicks... They do away with this?

Oh almost forgot to ask... Whats the minimum for payout with godaddy's cash parking? How do they pay you? Check? Paypal?

 

[cache]

in terms of parking, you don't know the results until you try it. Thus people should post their experiment results here so that we can comnpare (but not against the TOS).

 

[softgroups]

I think that ... Godady is very seriouse and it won't scam anyone... as a lot of easy coming&easy going parketing companies are doing... no?

 

[sirengirl]

To pay to park?? They have to be the only ones that do this. I would be curious though if anyone makes more than if they parked it for free.

SG

 

[emega]

I think that godaddy does have some advantages over other parking companies in terms of traffic which they give you.

 

[sirengirl]

I think that godaddy does have some advantages over other parking companies in terms of traffic which they give you.

godaddy dosent give you traffic, the name does, and the strength of name.
The question is really established by fact. So you pay $3.99 or more a month and make a profit or likely lose money, or you park somewhere else for free and make a profit, or not (but at least you dont lose any more money.)

Post your results by comparison and I am sure many would be curious. Hey if works better that would be great and may make the naysayers believers.


SG

 

[emega]

NO! GoDaddy also gets you traffic.

 

[sirengirl]

NO! GoDaddy also gets you traffic.

Wow you are gung ho about their parking--which is fine to each is own. The question is really, if they are the only company that actually charges for this; after the $3.99, are you actually making a profit? It isint worth that 20% jump in traffic as you imply, if it isint converting.

I would be more convinced by fact not speculation anyway.

best of luck...

 

[emega]

I am making more than $3.99

However, I never tested out any of the other parking programs besides godaddy

 

[bojianh]

Well, (again im no expert) but Sedo also use Google for their adverts and im averaging 0.86 euro per click, i can't see any good reason to pay a monthly fee to use godaddy

0.86 euro??? That's a lot. What keyword is it may i know?

 

[emega]

I am making most of my money off one domain, couponsteal.com

couponsteal made a few dollars so far, but nothing truly fantastic.

 

[domainacrobat]

You want to know the real reason Godaddy charges... Ok here it goes.

I heard about buying domain based on a tip from an exgirlfriend, then I read the business 2.0 article (I subscribe lol). It talked about parking and the entire economic system revolving around it. So I started buying domains at godaddy, the most user friendly and professional looking registrar around. It stated "free parked page" , after I had bought about 50 names The first time I went to one of my domains I saw it was parked. I started thinking, hmmmm, where on the control panel can I access my earnings. Ummm nowhere. So I called customer support and asked "Where are my earnings from all of my pages parked at Godaddy? Do I get a percentage? Is there revenue taken in by these parked pages?" They proceded to explain that they keep all revenue generated. NICE. It is marketed as a free parked page at the expense of their customers. I ask this, How could Godaddy offer REAL FREE PARKING and still make millions of dollars due to inexperience of their customers. It would be strange to automatically steup a parked page for a domain registered through Godaddy, keep all of the revenue and then also offer REAL FREE PARKING without paying for it.

I am no expert, I only started last november. But reading this forum is very helpful. I think Godaddy parking is a sham. I park at a few different places so far. Sedo.com, and A1Plus.net

I keep names at sedo to make sales, and I park at 1plus.net to get traffic. Although since the Sedo upgrade, one domain I own went from making $2-3 monthly to $10. I make the same amount of money at 1plus.net w/adsense that I do at sedo, but I have about 80 domains domains at 1plus.net and a few hundred at sedo.
At 1plus.net you input your google adsense code and keep all the earnings, no paying or splitting payouts. One name I have parked there www.prizefighting.net even comes up high in google search results as soon as their bot got to it even with a fresh reg. If you google the term "prize Fighting" it comes up 17th out of 24,500,000. Already more than Godaddy ever did for me. But I still reg my names there LOL. Great service, they always refund me quickly if I have any problems.

 

[ZuraX]

How does that explain why GoDaddy charges for parking?

 

[Domainate.com]

I am making more than $3.99

However, I never tested out any of the other parking programs besides godaddy

If you've never tested out any of the other parking programs, then how on earth can you say GoDaddy's is good? You have nothing to compare it to.

I haven't tried out SedoPro yet and will never try out GoDaddy, but Fabulous kills everything else I've tried including Sedo, Afternic's "House Parking", DomainHop, DS, and NameDrive. If GoDaddy doesn't do better than SedoPro, I highly doubt it does any better than Fabulous, and Fabulous is free too (though it's also exclusive to 100+ domain portfolios much like SedoPro). Bottom line: there is only 1 parking program that charges money, and from what almost everyone who has tried it has said, it's not better than the rest, so WHY try it? IMO, it's GoDaddy's way of fleecing money from people who have no idea there were such services on the net. I love how Parsons will play the saint in his blog and then set up this service to bait n00bs.

 

[tricolorro]

How does that explain why GoDaddy charges for parking?

:hi:

I believe his point is that GoDaddy keeps all the revenue when they automatically Park domains you have registered and left dormant.
No charge to you for "these" Parked domains.

But if you decide you want a cut of the action, then GoDaddy agrees as
long as you pay for the privilege to share in the wealth.

:imho:

Patrick

 

[domainacrobat]

How does that explain why GoDaddy charges for parking?

When you register a name at godaddy they automatically park it, but they park it and retain all income. If they were to offer free paid parking and allow the domain owner to keep the income, Godaddy would lose millions in revenue. They also know that they lose lots of business because of sedo etc. so they now offer paid parking for a monthly fee. It would be unethical to offer free paid parking while automatically setting the parking to allow themselves to profit. It would be ridiculous if I had to set myself as the recipient of income. Thus they have to charge a small fee to retain the revenue system from the "free parked pages"

 

[AGS]

You have to admire GoDaddys audacity in charging people for their parking :lol:

You would have to be mad to pay for that, but clearly people do.

 

[emega]

Well, they charge because they would be losing millions of dollars if they didn't charge. The reason being because, if they would offer free cash parking then they would be losing all the money from generated from their free parkers who generate money exclusively for them.