The players

Independent Australian domain parking and marketplace platform owned by Trellian.

Start-up bought by Google in April 2003 whose technology and AdSense name became Google's contextual ad business.

Independent US domain parking company popular with domain investors; it ceased operating on 31 January 2026.

The largest domain registrar; its Afternic and CashParking services earn ad money from parked and unbuilt domains.

German web-hosting group that owns Sedo and decided in 2025 to sell it after parking revenue collapsed.

Seattle firm that bet on type-in domain traffic in 2004, sold the names to GoDaddy in 2015, now does call analytics.

Team Internet's domain parking platform, which earns money from visitors to unused domain names.

The largest domain marketplace and a major parking and search-feed platform, put up for sale by IONOS in 2025.

Long-running traffic monetisation platform for domain portfolio owners, registrars and web hosts.

London-listed owner of Tonic, ParkingCrew, Zeropark and Voluum, rebuilding after Google ended ads on parked domains.