New InterNetX Report From Simone Catania Examines the State of Domain Parking After Google's Exit

If you read this year's widely heralded 2026 Global Domain Report (and the previous annual edition of the Report from InterNetX), you are already familiar with the comprehensive research and writing that the company's Global Content & Communications Manager has done on a wide variety of key industry topics. Some of his best work can be found in the InterNetX SnapShot section, including his just released report on the history and current status of domain name parking. 

Simone told me he put together the report, titled Domain parking in 2026: what changed and what to do now, after noticing that most media outlets, including those in the mainstream tech press, treated the shutdown of Google Adsense for Domains as Google banning domain parking. "That in turn left readers with the impression that parked domains no longer earn anything at all. Neither is accurate, and the confusion matters right now because investors are making renewal decisions on that basis," Simone said.

Is his article, Simone tackled the issue with a multi-pronged examination that does the following;

1. Lays out the wind-down as four dated stages, from the September 2024 default change to the February 2026 close. This explains why some sources date the end to 2025 and others to 2026.

2. Traces the arc back to Google's purchase of Applied Semantics in 2003, through the Marchex portfolio, the Cameroon .cm episode and the 2015 sale that closed the boom.

3. Works through the renewal arithmetic: $0.10 to $5.00 a month for a keyword domain with moderate traffic, against a .com wholesale fee rising to $10.97 on 1 November.

4. Reconciles the Infoblox 90% figure and ICANN's 5.5% on zero-click redirects. They get quoted against each other as if they contradict, when they simply sampled different populations.

5. Makes the case that monetization did not end with AFD. Yahoo feeds never went away, and access to Google inventory now runs through specialist feed providers rather than one self-service product. What changed is the scale, and how much the outcome now depends on the individual domain.

Simone Catania
Global Content & Communications Manager
InterNetX

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While the decline of parking revenue prompted many industry veterans to switch their focus from parking to sales (as super investor Yoni Belousov, who is profiled in our current Cover Story, said he did years ago), Simone's article show why parking monetization remains a viable option for some investors. Read his full report here. 

(Posted October 1, 2026)   

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