NameDrive

NameDrive specializes in parking international domain names.

Advantages

•    NameDrive specializes in monetizing international traffic and offers support in 9 different languages
•    Park & Sell is a unique sales platform based on parking revenue multiples rather than generic value.
•    You can set keywords in a variety of languages.
•    There are landing pages available in multiple languages including Japanese, Korean, Russian, Arabic Thai and Hebrew.

Payments

NameDrive uses PayPal or bank wire. The minimum payout for Paypal is $20. The minimum bank wire for European Banks is $50, with a minimum for US banks of $100. Other banks are $200.

One particular advantage is that they use Paypals “mass pay” feature which means you don’t pay the 3% PayPal fee for receiving money into your PayPal account.

Payments are made on the 15th of each month for earnings made the previous month.

Affiliate Payments

NameDrive pay 7% on referred parking revenue. If your referrals generate more than $1,000 of monthly earnings, the percentage increases to 10%. If you send them more than $10,000 of monthly earnings, you earn 15% of your affiliates’ parking revenue.

Management

The President of NameDrive is Ed Russell.

Parking Companies

There are a large number of companies that monetize traffic using pay-per-click advertising, including:

* ActiveAudience
* Bodis
* GoDaddy Cash Parking
* DomainHop
* DomainSpa
* Domain Sponsor
* Dotzup
* Fabulous
* Goldkey
* iMonetize
* NameDrive
* Parked
* ParkingDots
* Parking Panel
* RevenueDirect
* Sedo
* SmartName
* TrafficZ
* Traffic Valet

Your results will vary between parking companies due to a variety of factors including the advertising network used, fraud mechanisms, number of bidders on a particular keyword or keyphrase.

Differences Between Parking Companies

Let’s get one thing straight: not all parking companies are the same!

Yes, they pretty much get their ad feeds from the same popular ad networks. However, their rules about how you can lay out your pages, where you can place ads, whether, and the extent to which, you can add or modify page content, can vary widely. And that’s not to mention the differences in terms of payouts.

For example, some companies allow the home page of your domain to display a page that lists a number of topics (but not ads) and it’s only when a visitor clicks on a topic that they are taken to a page where ads may be viewed. In other words, making money with such companies requires a two‐step conversion. The visitor must click on a topic, and then on one of the ads before you generate any income. However, that does not necessarily mean that you should avoid working with such parking companies. In some cases, they may actually generate more conversions and income than another parking company that allows ads to be displayed on the home page of your domain. I’ve certainly experienced this with some of my domain names.

Parking Strategy

Don’t rely on just one parking company. Sign up for as many parking companies as you can and move your portfolio around to see what works best. Even if you have a highly converting domain, earning you a lot of money, don’t accept that this is as good as it can be. You never really know how “high is high” without trying lots of different things.

You really need to test, test, test in order to work out what works best.

Tips For Choosing A Parking Company

1. Are they talked about in a positive light on popular domain forums?
2. Do they have a track record of paying their customers on time?
3. Do they have staff in industry forums that respond to posts?

Some of the more popular companies that answer “yes” to these questions include Parked, Sedo, Fabulous and NameDrive.