We will take a look in monetizing the existing domain names that you already own.

The best way to monetize the domains is to make a website on it and earn the advertising revenue or from affiliate programs.

If you don’t know what an advertising revenue is or an affiliate program is then here are the basics.

The advertising is the process in which you put a banner, link or a javascript code on your site featuring some products from some other seller. Different ads and advertising networks have different payment and earning options. Some pay for clicks while some pay for impressions (Number of the page is loaded by a Unique visitor).

Affiliate programs are the programs where you can join and then put a banner, link or a javascript on your site for promoting the web businesses. You are paid for visitors, subscribers or sales referred by your site.

Now that was a bit harder part and is for the domain name investors who would like to utilize that way of earning. But there are still more ways to monetize the domain name.

Lets say you have some domain name which gets in typein traffic (User types the URL directly in the address bar of the browser). Here you already have the traffic and if there is no need to make a site with content and get the hits from the search engines, you can go with the domain parking program.

The Domain name parking program allows you to point your existing domain names to the domain name parking service provider’s server. When you park your domain name with domain parking company your domains are provided with a landing page. This is the page that a visitor will see when he or she types in the domain name in the address bar.

The expired domain names with existing traffic can also be utilized for the parking purposes.

Just make sure that you read the terms and conditions of the domain parking company and follow them without fail.

Some good parking companies are:

http://www.parked.com
http://www.namedrive.com