| cting Your Website | | | | purpose of domain parking services to develop their |
| One thing you are always going to find, no matter | | | | domains into revenue-paying advertisement sites. |
| what business you happen to be in, if you are | | | | Domain Name Front-running |
| successful then somebody else is going to attempt | | | | It never takes long before the fraudulent element |
| to pull the rug out from under your feet. This is no | | | | sees opportunities to make money and, when it |
| less true of internet marketing and, if you have a | | | | comes to original domain names, there is money to |
| particularly successful site, then you need to do | | | | be had. Domain Front-running involves making use of |
| everything possible to protect your success. | | | | inside information to buy up domain names that are |
| Domain parking pages fulfils that requirement | | | | known to be valuable, in the knowledge that by |
| perfectly. As an example, one of the commonest | | | | selling them, they are going to make a profit. This is |
| domain name extensions is ‘.com’ | | | | a dubious practice that is on the fringes of morality |
| – but other popular ones are | | | | rather than being totally illegal. It tends to involve |
| ‘.net’; ‘.co.uk’; | | | | individuals who manage clients’ software, DNS |
| ‘.biz’ – plus a range of others. | | | | operators and other insiders. Weak security is |
| Now, if your website is doing very well under the | | | | another source of obtaining domain names ahead of |
| domain of ‘successfulcoffee.com’ and | | | | the company who really wants to register it. |
| you do nothing to protect your name from | | | | Whatever else it is, it is certainly not good practice |
| somebody else coming along and registering a domain | | | | and one that is frowned upon in the industry. |
| as ‘successfulcoffee.net’ then, in a | | | | Flipping Your Domain |
| way, they are taking advantage of your success. | | | | Another kind of discrepancy comes in the confusion |
| What you need to do is to buy up as many domains | | | | between domain flipping and website flipping. Domain |
| as possible in each one of the alternative domain | | | | flipping involves registering a domain name for a small |
| name extensions and arrange for each one to be set | | | | sum and then parking it on a domain parking page, |
| up as domain parking pages with a company that | | | | with the intention of selling it in the future. Then, of |
| specializes in managing domain parking. | | | | course, there is website flipping which also involves |
| Maintaining a Web Presence | | | | registering your domain – but here the |
| Domain parking pages can also maintain a domain | | | | similarity ends. When you are flipping a website you |
| address for a time in the future when you decide the | | | | place it with a hosting agent and place quality content |
| time is right to sell for a profit. This was much more | | | | on the site, thereafter publishing it to the Web. After |
| lucrative a few years ago before the big companies | | | | that, you advertise it for sale in the hope of attaining |
| decided to maintain their own domains and started to | | | | a much higher price due to the possibility of it having |
| buy up domain names associated with their | | | | attracted incoming links to it from other sites. Either |
| trademarks. Another use for domain parking pages is | | | | way, the intention is for you to make money. The |
| for those individuals who buy up hundreds of domain | | | | question remains: which is better and more lucrative |
| names, parking each one of them for the sole | | | | – domain parking pages or website flipping? |