Last week Google announced that they are extending adSense for domains to all publishers. Normally new advertising options are welcomed by the webmaster community but domainers have been less than pleased with Google moving into this market.

Many domainers believe that this is bad for the domain industry and will be the first step in Google getting a stranglehold in the industry.

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I will be the first to go on record and say that this time next year parking companies will be obsolete. Does this mean run and move all of your domain names to Google, absolutely not. Just like anything new it has to be tested and tweaked several times before its right.

As of now you will still gain more traffic and money by parking companies. With a parking company you have more control over the keywords used, optimization, visual appearance and content.

Many believe that this within a few years Google will have complete control over the parked market. Biggedon, a moderator over at DNForum, said

Don’t be so quick to thank google. On the surface, it seems great for domainers but once everyone is on the googlewagon, then that’s when they will have complete control. As by then, they will have eliminated the middlemen between us and them and many domainers will be dependent on G.

Once that happens, they will start to implement new policies and standards. Some or most you may not like it in the end, they are definetly looking for ways to monopolize internet traffic

At the moment this option is only available to USA based domainers but when they roll out in the UK I’m going to try it. Until then, I am going to reserve judgement. Though I understand why many are concerned about google moving into the domain parking sector.