Is Domain Parking Worth The Trouble?

If you're thinking about getting into the domain parking industry then I'll let you in on a little secret: The odds are stacked against you. This business has been dominated by a few big players for a while. If you're starting from scratch, then you have as much chance to succeed in this game as a Tibetan monk with violent garlic allergies has at establishing himself as a dominant player in the Italian Mafia.

The domain parking industry is fundamentally flawed because it is passive. Any business plan that involves a lot of sitting around must eventually fail. It's similar to any get-rich-quick scam that uses the phrase, "Just sit back and watch the money roll in!" I've heard countless eCommerce, Adsense and affiliate schemes that make this claim. They will tell you to have faith in their system, they will warn against doubters who want to steal your get-rich-quick dreams away from you. But I tell you: Don't buy into anything that says, "Pay me $99.95 and I'll tell you the secret to making money without having to work."

Obviously some people make a living in the domain parking industry. I will tell you how they do it. First of all they have tons of awesome domains such as gardens.com or love.com. They do not depend on domains such as "ilikegardensalot.com" or "ireallylikelovealot.com." Any domain with two or more words will probably never make back the money you spent to register it.

Be wary of buying domains that seem clever right now because they probably suck. You will discover this after it's too late to cancel your domain choices and get a refund. It doesn't even matter if you and all your friends think your domain names are clever. What matters is what the general masses think is clever.

Keep in mind that you need people to type your domain names manually. Search engines won't help you because they hesitate to even acknowledge your parked pages. So you have to ask yourself honestly, "What are the chances of someone typing in www.ireallyreallylikegardensalot.com?" In order for your domain, ireallyreallylikegardensalot.com to pay for itself an average of one hundred separate people will have to type that entire domain every day.

You might try buying thousands of dollars worth of domains in hopes that they make more than what it cost to register them in the first place. If you purchased a domain from scratch that made $5 dollars more than what it cost you to register it per year, that would be a miracle. So what if you could find 10,000 similarly miraculous domains? Then you would have an administrative nightmare on your hands.

Why Do We Need Privacy Protection When We Buy Domain Names?

What is domain name privacy protection?

Also known as "Private Registration." This is a term involved with domain name registration. And it literally means you domain name registration details are kept private or in other words your personal details such as your name, home/ office address, email address and phone numbers are not displayed in public data base. If I may define "private registration" in another way, it means, Implementation of appropriate safeguard measures to ensure the security and confidentiality of WHOIS data records, as well as to protect the WHOIS records against threats or identity theft that could result in substantial embarrassment, harm, inconvenience, or unfairness to any person.

Why you need Privacy Protection?

Imagine for a second, when you register a domain, your name, address, email address and phone numbers are immediately made available to anyone who wants to see them? That's right. Your personal information is exposed 24 hours a day, everyday, to anyone, anywhere globally who wants to see and use them. When buying a domain name you have to provide accurate contact information or else your domain registration could be terminated as it would be in violation of the ICANN terms and regulations for any and all domain name registrations.

This information has to be made publicly available to everyone via the public WHOIS database as required by ICANN, the international governing body for domain names. Everyday, this valuable source of accurate contact information is targeted and harvested by spammers and telemarketers resulting in unwanted and unsolicited contact. Also since your contact information is public, you are at risk for identity theft and fraud and of being contacted by harassers and stalkers.

The benefits of making a traditional domain name registration into a fully secured private registration

1. Prevent Identity theft and fraud.
2. Prevent unexpected online/offline harassments and stalking
3. Prevent unsolicited commercial emailing
4. Prevent receiving direct mail/sales letters via your postal address
5. Prevent unwanted phone calls from telemarketers, stalkers or any other strangers
6. Ability to protect your privacy and safeguard all your personal contact information.

How does private registration work?

Privacy Protection or Private Registration method ensures that your private information will not publish on the World Wide Web publicly. And the way this security measure work is by replacing all your publicly visible contact details with alternate contact information created and made available by your domain name registrar or any other third party company who provide such service on behalf of your domain name registrar with ICANN approval.

So therefore you have the power to change identity theft, fraud, or even unexpected online/offline harassments and stalking, with a private ("unlisted") registration. Some domain name registrars offer this service as a value added service with a price tag while some offer it for free. Either way if you are not comfortable with the fact that your personal information is made publicly available to anyone from any where in the world you should definitely go for a privacy protection option when you registering a domain name. And in order to prevent all sorts of misconducts that can be made using your personal information. Remember prevention is always better than cure...!!!!