Adsense for Domains open to all Publishers

Another day, another moneymaking scheme from Google. In an effort to continue to increase revenues in spite of the market, Google has opened its AdSense of domains program to all publishers that want in.

AdSense for domains is a fairly simple system that allows you to make money off your domain names even before you develop them into full-blown websites. Basically what happens is this, when someone goes to your undeveloped web page they see relevant adverts from Google and you receive a fee from clicks as normal – a similar service to this is offered by many other domain name sellers.

However, unless your URL is a popular keyword, the sort of thing that people will type into an address bar assuming there must be a site with that name, you’re unlikely to make much money. The real appeal of AdSense for Domains, as far as I can see, is that it provides an alternative to a horrible empty page or, even worse, an ugly 404 not found message greeting browsers before your site is up, which can only be a good thing.

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