Sedo is top parking company, but many newcomers rank in the top 10.
Sedo and SedoPro are the top domain name parking companies according to respondents in Domain Name Wire’s 7th annual domain name industry survey. But a lot of new parking companies are challenging it.
In absolute numbers, Sedo was ranked top. Google’s self-serve Adsense for Domains program, which is closing, ranked second.
A good way to look at the parking rankings is to consider what percentage of people who have used a particular service voted for that service. Most people have tried multiple parking services so they have a good idea of relative experience.
Here are the top 10, ranked by percentage of people who have used the service that voted it as their favorite. All companies in the top 10 were used by 47 or more survey respondents.
1. Sedo/SedoPro 76%
2. Google Adsense for Domains 70%
3. InternetTraffic 61%
4. HotKeys 38%
5. The Parking Place 37%
6. NameDrive 36%
7. Voodoo 35%
8. Bodis 34%
9. Rook Media 34%
10. Domain Advertising 33%
Amazingly, four of these companies weren’t around during last year’s survey: InternetTraffic, The Parking Place, Voodoo, and Rook Media.
Joe says
I thought WhyPark (now DomainApps) was in the top ten.
Ron says
Sedo tops in what, higher commission, slower transfers, lagging response times? As of the last 60 days they have turned it around, but for the added 5-10% commission increases they have not given clients much in the way of added services, based on the larger fees they are being charged.
Sedo I feel just woke up, other than that they had been operating as if it was 2010
Matt W says
HotKeys?!
David says
What are the standings based on RPM? Wasn’t that in the survey?
Andrew Allemann says
@ David – RPM was asked in the survey, but not to each individual parking company.
Daniel says
Hi Ron,
If you park domains with Sedo, and sell via our website, you are still charged our minimum commission of 10%. If you sell via our website but are not parked, the commission is our standard 15%.
For the commission of 20%, you get the additional benefits of the SedoMLS Promotion Network, which is the world’s largest domain name distribution network. These include fast transfers and quicker payouts on any sales, plus distribution across our partner network of over 60 partners, including Go Daddy.
Daniel @ Sedo
David says
Ahh, gotcha. Will the results from that survey be released soon?
Andrew Allemann says
@ David – yes, I’ll post those soon.
Dave Mead - Hotkeys says
Thanks Andrew for doing this survey. At Hotkeys, we’re constantly making improvements to our system to produce the best returns on our clients’ portfolios. Although we have many of the top domainers on our platform, there are still some people that haven’t tried us out yet. You could consider us somewhat of a hidden gem in the monetization industry. If you’ve got some high quality domains, please drop me a line. I’ll be happy to set up an account for you. Dave @ Hotkeys
apex says
Hotkeys.com sucks.
Applied many times.
No messages.
No response to emails / feedback.
Seems they are out ofbusiness
Jason Stewart says
David,
Your templates are on the right track..but you are missing something important.
How can I contact you?
Marg says
When did TrafficZ fall off the perch in terms of domainer ratings? I haven’t seen them mentioned in the last few years in the top 5, now they’re not even in the top 10.
Ron says
Hello,
I’m also Ron,
I don’t understand that survey, since there are some heavy DomainParking companies that are missing here.
By the way Google Adsense for Domains stopped their service, so what’s the reason to leave them in the list?
one more thing – 47 people are not enough to get a REAL survey, I wish this survey was running for at least a month or until it had 500 participants.
Andrew Allemann says
Ron –
The survey ran for about a month and had 1,593 respondents. 1,205 answered this question. The 47 represents the minimum # of people who reported using one of these top 10 services.
Google Adsense for Domains has not yet stopped its service. It will stop sometime next month.
Domainer Extraordinaire says
>Here are the top 10, ranked by percentage of people who have used the service that voted it as their favorite.
How does your total percentages add up to more than 100%. Were the surveyees able to classify more than one parking company as their favorite?
Andrew Allemann says
@ Domainer Extraordinaire –
The calculation is:
# of people who said it was their favorite / # of people who said they used the parking company
So the percentages have nothing to do with an overall sum of 100%.