Rules on Parked Domains

Domain Name Selection

Domain parking companies generally have strict rules regarding acceptable domain names. A domain name cannot infringe on a company's trademarks and generally cannot be a misspelling of a real website's name. The domain name also should not contain words that might be considered offensive or illegal.

Fraudulent Clicks

Because domain parking programs generally pay you for each click of an advertisement, you cannot click your own ads. You also cannot ask friends or family to click your ads. The domain parking program earns money when advertisement clicks result in product sales, and product sales only result from people who click advertisements because they want to learn more.

Fraudulent Traffic

You cannot send traffic to a parked domain by linking to it from another website or inserting scripts that cause the parked domain to pop up automatically in a Web browser. The parked domain can generate traffic only through sources such as old links from when the domain previously belonged to a developed website or from visitors typing the domain name manually.

Domain Category

When you park a domain, you provide a general category or list of keywords to the advertising company. This information allows the company to display advertisements that someone visiting the domain might find relevant. Do not select a category or keywords unrelated to the topic of the domain name; doing so may result in your removal from the domain parking program.