I have gotten a little carried away lately with purchasing domains. There are many stories out there of people who have an addiction for this, and if I am going to join the ranks I need to know the best way possible to profit from it.

Currently, I have them all parked at sedo because of threads I have been reading where some parking is better than other parking. I have had about 50 unique views in the last week, but only 3 click through. Obviously, that is not going to get me anywhere.

So, my questions are as follows:

1. Should I unpark all of them and try to build traffic and then park later? Is that ethical and legal?

2. What is the best way to attract traffic for possible sale?

Of course I cannot list the domains here in the thread because that would against the terms and condtions of Sedo, but I feel a couple are worthy of traffic if the right content is put in place.

Feedback is greatly appreciated. Thanks.

Personally I hate when people park domains to spam farms when they coudl actually be used for something useful (specially "rare" domains like <4 letter ones) but thats just me. Not sure the ethicality of it.

What I would do is just try to make various sites out of them. Like if you registered carforums.com then make a forum about cars and maybe have mods where people can put in their car stats in their profile. Just an example.

Or if you don't want to make a site for each one or they don't really have a name that would do well in that sense, start an email service where people can pick out of a list of domains. You could probably profit off ads in the web mail (like gmail). or in the emails themselves. Could also have a "business plan" with no ads and choice for people to add their own domains.

Just an idea though, lot of stuff you could do.

1. Should I unpark all of them and try to build traffic and then park later? Is that ethical and legal?

2. What is the best way to attract traffic for possible sale?

Personally I'd unpark them. Put up a minisite (1-5 pages) on each. Seo them. Submit them to several directories. Submit them to Google for inclusion in their index. Put Google Adsense adverts on them. After say 6 months, review the traffic and revenue. If there is traffic. Park them at Parked. Optimize them. If still no traffic or revenue, then either sell them or let them expire.

Agree with stub. you're better off making minisites, rarely do parked sites provide income unless previously established.

Make sites or blogs out of them.
Put adsense on them.

Unless your making at least reg fee and a profit per year parking then they should be developed which is the real goal for any domain. I would leave them parked though until the site is ready to publish online for each one.

What kind of parking revenue is typical? I always assumed it was very little revenue in most instances.

As other thread posters have mentioned, developing some kind of content would seem to be a more lucrative option. Web site content + Google AdSense, perhaps?

-mike