I took an investment jump (actually test)

I hope this doesn't violate any mods rules since I am not selling anything or promoting anything to sell, this is just a test journey for me.

I have reading up on pay outs on parked domains and decided to research how it works etc. I had some money sitting in a Paypal account and said what the heck right? People have been doing this for years. This is more of a gamble than an investment.

Disclaimer: As a technical person I abhor parked domains.

So I bought 5 domains on the cheap that had recently expired and used search engines to verify they were still viable.

I bought:

LookNaturallyYounger.com
FluResource.com
FreeTasteOffer.com
PowerfulWeightLoss.net
BetterNaturalSleep.com

Disclaimer: These are parked domains and I am not asking you to click on them.

I figured people would search medical things more than any other types for now except for the freetasteoffer one which had a decent presence.

So I set up a NameDrive account and just pointed to their nameservers and just wait. That's it.

So far I haven't made much in the 16 hours I have had this up but projected revenue this month is about 80-100 dollars.

I am just curious if any other TB'ers do this or have more insight on the process.

Thanks.

Edit: This is NOT for negative comments. I understand the pros and cons. Please keep it positive or just click out of the thread.

 

Right. Usually Google Adsense. It only took me about an hour to setup up all five from purchase of the name to hosting it on NameDrive. They provide the parked pages and ads then I get paid on the click though. Which all of the sites (so far) are legit businesses trying to generate traffic to their sites. That's why I posted above I am NOT asking anyone to click on the sites. It would seem sketchy and could result in a red flag if a ton of traffic comes from a particular IP. I posted them as an example of what I bought.

 

I went to name.com and searched recently expired domains. I then searched the web for ones I thought were good and verified they were still relevant through searches etc. I registered them for less than 10 dollars each.

 

Well, it's a gamble because unless you buy a tool to check for sure, you don't know if they will make money. If I get my 40-50 dollars back I will be happy as a learning experience. Expired domains CAN cost more if it's a premium domain known to have a ton of traffic. However if it's truly expired and released (which tens of thousands do every day) it's just a standard registrar fee. You can find a ton that people just forgot to renew or lost interest that were generating decent traffic.

 

I mentioned this above. I went to name.com and looked for recently expired then searched the search engines for relevance. If it was still showing up as a good search I bought.

There is a better way to do this and make more money, but you have to buy a special software that can spit out all of the data metrics which I am not going to do.

 

woo-hoo. 6 dollars lol. I might break even by the end of the year

 

I broke even today lol.