Recently hand registered domain earns $4.87 a click
I’m pretty lazy about checking my parking stats and am usually more concerned with developing and selling names. Recently starting using a pretty cool iPhone app which lets me glance at daily and monthly revenue as well as well as my top performing names for the day.
Noticed that one of my hand registrations (Free800Number.com) just earned $4.87 a click on Smartname. Logged in to my account and see that the name is doing pretty well (especially for a non-optimized straight parking page which I haven’t spent any time customizing).
Turns out this name received 70 unique visitors this month, has a 17% click-through rate and generated $22.93 this month. Average Revenue per click for the month is $1.91, so I don’t know if the $4.87 click was a fluke or an upward trend (possibly due to Smartname changing to a Bing feed), but one can hope.
Of course most my hand registered names don’t do this well parking, but it is a nice surprise and should pay some renewal fees while I decide to develop or resell the name.
Feel free to post any of your own specific domain parking examples (good or bad) below. If there is any interest I might make this a regular feature so we can all learn from each others experiences.