Parking vs for-sale landing page vs ?

[Edwin]

What's the current state of play for parking vs using a landing page (e.g. a "This domain is for sale" microsite or something more sophisticated)?

I keep watching parking rates drop and drop, and at some point it's probably more valuable to point the traffic at a portfolio page than at ads! All I'd lose is the parking revenue, but the tradeoff might be more sales. I guess I need to get off my proverbial and make an effort to redirect all the domains to somewhere more productive...

Anyway, I'd love to hear any experience you'd care to share about the type of landing pages you use, and what (if anything) you found improved the likelihood of a sales conversion.

For example (not an exhaustive list, just meant to help spark the discussion)

- Do you mention that the domain is for sale on the landing page (either via a link on the parking page, or because it's pointed at a portfolio/domain listing site or similar)?

- If yes, do you specify a price?

- Do you provide general "blurb" about domains and the merits of generics, or is it short and sweet (a paragraph plus email address or contact form)?

- Do you list other names in your portfolio, or is it one page per name (or indeed, one page for ALL names)?

[DB]

Hi Edwin

I have been parking names at name drive since the day they started and looking at my rev its the worst this month then its ever been, infact so little I am also thinking about moving my names away and just having landing pages.

[pendragon]

I'm starting to put up a this domain for sale page with an aweber enquiry form on them.

I'm considering a bit of blurb relevant to the domain name etc explaining the merits of having such a domain name. I might stand a chance of getting it indexed too then.

[SecNam]

Originally Posted by pendragon

I'm starting to put up a this domain for sale page with an aweber enquiry form on them.

I'm considering a bit of blurb relevant to the domain name etc explaining the merits of having such a domain name. I might stand a chance of getting it indexed too then.

thats ok for 1 - 50 ish domains but if you have more than 500 + this is a pain staking task.

[ratboy]

Guys, had landing pages working for a month now so I can tell you how it's working for me.

Welcome to gardenmate.co.uk

Use a reseller package with UK Reseller Hosting & Multiple Domain Hosting - BPWEB for £30 a month. All i do is add the domain name and point it at the base directory (htdocs in this case) and the php index page picks up the domain name for each one...

Welcome to 2037.co.uk
Welcome to think-tank.co.uk

etc.

Had lots more enquiries and the pages are being indexed by G well. Traffic is up too. Obviously it costs me money each month rather than making money but I think it looks better and as I've said before might avoid DRS issues.

[grantw]

I now have one lander page that all my domains point to, it then generates the info I want to show with a link to the relevant for sale page on my main sales site.

The initial reason for doing this was because I was sick of being sued/drs'd, the complainants main offensive being their competitors adverts on the parked page. Since making the change I've seen a massive increase in offers and sales.

Ditching parking was the best thing I ever did.

Grant

[ratboy]

Originally Posted by paullas

thats ok for 1 - 50 ish domains but if you have more than 500 + this is a pain staking task.

Less so than moving parking host though.

[SecNam]

ive not parked my domains for over a year now be interesting if anyone has <PHP> code that i can put on my page that catches the domain name and puts it on the page like mentioned above.

[ratboy]

Email on way.

[SecNam]

thanks, rep added