Reglikedomain industry desk

Parked.com Tops for Domain Name Parking — Sedo and

Familiar faces top results from survey.

Sedo and Parked.com were selected as the best domain name parking firms in the 5th Annual Reglike Survey.

Sedo took top honors with 23% of the vote, followed by Parked.com at 18%. Here are the top five vote-getters:

1. Sedo 23%
2. Parked.com 18%
3. NameDrive 13%
4. SmartName 6%
5. DomainSponsor and Google Adsense for Domains 6%

SmartName is fresh to the list this year. The firm has combined its three parking platforms into one, giving clients previously on GoldKey and ActiveAudience access to SmartName. The firm has also launched fresh parking products counting content sites and shops.

It’s also interesting to look at the percentage of clients that have used a service that rate it ‘best’. By this measure, SmartName takes home top honors, followed by Parked, NameDrive, and Sedo.

Amongst domainers with 1,000 or more domain names, Parked.com takes first place followed by Sedo.

Rate domain name parking firms at ParkingJudge.com.

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