Namedrive Review

Posted on 9th November 2008

If you’ve read some of the articles I posted earlier this year regarding the subject of domaining you’ll know that the subject has not only drawn me in but has continued to become a greater part of my online earnings.

Domaining in its simplest terms is about buying domains and then parking them with a domain parking company (most are free to sign up to). Namedrive is one such company and this post is going to highlight some of the successes I’ve had with them.

Now before I get into the details I just want to clarify that I’m not a domain parking veteran. For me domain parking is a short term solution that allows me to earn from the 30-50 domains I usually hold whilst their sitting idle waiting to be developed. Many of these domains are purchased from domain expiry sites like tdnam which ultimately means they’re aged (anything from 2-12 years old) and have active back links to them.

Thanks to the backlinks 90% of these domains have some sort of traffic passing through them. This could be as little as 10 uniques per month to as high as 1000 uniques per month. Either way these domains aren’t the best types to monetise, they certainly don’t get any type in traffic and in most cases they’re not keyword rich. However despite these short comings if these domains weren’t parked I’d be losing around $100 per month. It’s not a lot of money but if I already own those domains why should I miss out, that’s an extra $1200 in my pocket at the end of the year.

So how does namedrive come into this, well firstly their free to sign up to and are the only domain parking service that has actually worked for me. I’ve tried sedo ($0.50-$10 per month), I even tried a paid service called whypark (cost $100 to sign up) which despite having worked for some colleagues of mine earnt me next to nothing ($0.05-$1.00 per month).

So the key to my earnings is 100% linked to Namedrive, no other parking service has paid me as highly as they have. What’s great is that if you signup using this link and earn more than $20 in November they’ll actually pay you a 10% seasonal bonus.

So if you have domains just sitting there, my advice would be to get them onto Namedrive. Remember sign up is 100% free and you’ll probably have your domains listed within 15 minutes. Their admin panel is second to none and their customer service is actually quite helpful (in most cases they replied to my queries extremely professionally and within the hour).

Give them a shot and let me know how you do ? I’ll keep you updated on any other services I find but for now Namedrive is my #1 choice..