Sedo and Parked Still Top Domain Parking Firms, But Revenue Down

Survey reveals favorite parking firms but continued downward trend in parking revenue.

A non-scientific survey of over 1,500 domain name industry participants shows that Sedo and Parked.com are still the top domain name parking firms.

Sedo received 30% of the votes as top parking firm in Reglike’s sixth annual domain survey.

Parked came in a distant second place with 14% of the vote.

Last year Sedo took 23% of the vote and Parked brought home 18%.

The top five vote-getters in this year’s survey were:

1. Sedo 30%
2. Parked 14%
3. NameDrive 12%
4. Google Adsense for Domains 11%
5. SmartName 9%

Yet revenue from parked domains continues to decline, note the survey-takers.

46% noted earning less than $10 RPM (revenue per thousand) from their parked domains, up from 40% last year. 68% noted earning less than $20 RPM, compared to 60% last year.

Domain parkers are split on what will happen to parking revenue in 2011. 42% think it will be flat compared to 2010, while an even 29% think it will go up and 29% think it will go down.

You can see more survey results at Reglike.com/survey.