What I Hate Most About Parked Domains

As I’ve mentioned before, my brain is always coming up with new ideas. Often those ideas have some domain name attached to them that I think would fit the project perfectly. So I do the obvious thing and type in that URL just to see if it’s taken or if someone else has had a similar idea. More often then not the domain is taken, but all that rests upon it is a crappy parked domain.

What bothers me most about this isn’t the fact that the domain is already taken, but that the idea isn’t being put to use.

For example:

I was just thinking about how list-style posts are popular and while creating them is simple, there is actually a craft to making great list-style posts. So I thought it would be interesting to have a blog devoted to list-style posts. Either crafting all my own lists or being an aggregate of others good list posts. The lists could be informative or just humorous, similar to Merlin Mann’s 5ives.

Anyways, the first domain name that came to mind was listslistslists.com.  Immediately an image of a logo for the site pops into my head. It looks something like this:

Next I think about how the site would ooze minimalistic design. Nothing but greyscale with slight pops of color to emphasis certain things like the RSS button. Just a very clean site with nothing but yummy lists to explore.

Mind you all that has happened above took less that 5 seconds to process. So I type in listslistslists.com and to my chagrin it’s just an ugly old parked page.

So that’s my complaint about parked pages. Interesting content goes squandered in hopes of making a quick buck on a domain flip.

Do you have any similar situations where you’re upset that a domain isn’t being put to good use or at least not the way you envisioned it?