A friend of mine told me that if you park a domain Google will ban it from its search results, then somehow extort your real contact information from the registrar (even though you have whois privacy protection active on the domains you parked), and then ban all the rest of the domains you own as well, regardless of whether they're parked or not.

This sounds like a load of %#@$ to me, as there're plenty of parked domains all over the place. But, as I'm new to this and just got my first few domain names I thought I'd ask anyway.

Can anyone ease my worries?

Thanks,

::eidos::

A friend of mine told me that if you park a domain Google will ban it from its search results, then somehow extort your real contact information from the registrar (even though you have whois privacy protection active on the domains you parked), and then ban all the rest of the domains you own as well, regardless of whether they're parked or not.

And then Google will send Russian mobs (Sergei's friends) with *BIG* bazookas to your house to scare s^%^&t out of ya... :rofl:

Google won't ban the domain, but because it has no real content it will be treated as irrelevant and pushed way down in the listings. Don't expect to see it on the first few pages of search results.

Exactly what Techno explained. I've got hundreds of parked domains indexed by Google... in about 1 millionth position. (Funny, I thought I'd posted in this thread already).

Exactly what Techno explained. I've got hundreds of parked domains indexed by Google... in about 1 millionth position. (Funny, I thought I'd posted in this thread already).

So, just out of curiosity, do hundreds of parked domains indexed in 1 millionth position actually make any money all together?

::eidos::

So, just out of curiosity, do hundreds of parked domains indexed in 1 millionth position actually make any money all together?

You don't usually park domains w/o traffic. It must be either developed site in the past, getting echo of the old traffic OR a strong type-in keyword. If you'll park your new domain wetjnbevhjeuiwhbubsghkalwheruwwwwwwwwiyuavrfiytw44eu.com - don't expect much traffic from search engines (or any other, for that matter).

Of course me n Stan are in lock-step over this (and most issues). Agree with everything he has mentioned. And to answer your question eidos, yes they make money. I've even got non-indexed domains making money from parking. Not a lot, admittedly, but paying for their and other domains regfees. Traffic comes mostly from genuine type-ins and residual traffic. Oh, and to counter balance, I've also got hundreds of parked domains which make no money at all :( Very few people get rich from parking domains.