Bodis alternative: what to do with parked domains now

What happened to Bodis?

Bodis stopped operating on 31 January 2026, announced three days ahead, and ns1.bodis.com no longer resolves. A domain still delegated there does not resolve at all. Not a parked page, not an error page, no DNS answer. Check that today if you have not looked at an old portfolio in a while.

Why did parking die?

The business model lost its subsidy. Pay-per-click parking paid for itself out of ad revenue, and Google wound AdSense for Domains down for the last time on 10 February 2026. Bodis closed a fortnight before that date; Team Internet’s ParkingCrew cut a quarter of its staff; IONOS put Sedo up for sale in November 2025 after parking revenue fell 66%. Whatever comes next cannot be ad-funded, because there is no longer an ad market to fund it.

There is a second reason not to go looking for a replacement parking network. Parked address space is now presumed hostile by scanners: an Infoblox study reported by Krebs in December 2025 found that more than 90% of parked-domain visits redirect to malicious destinations. Sitting on a shared parking IP is a reputation risk you inherit from your neighbours.

What replaces a parking page?

For almost every domain, an honest for-sale page. Parking paid a fraction of a cent for traffic that has largely stopped existing anyway. Type-in traffic collapsed once browsers started routing the address bar to search. The only real value left in an unused domain is the price someone will pay for it. A page that says so, with a way to make an offer, is the whole product.

How does nics.dev compare with a parking network?

	Bodis (until January 2026)	nics.dev
Model	Pay-per-click parking with a for-sale overlay	For-sale page only
Ads on the page	Yes, that was the revenue	None, ever
Revenue while it sits there	Ad revenue share	None. The page is free while in beta
Commission on a sale	Not documented in our research	None while in beta
DNS	Catch-all: the nameservers answered for any name asked, so a domain could be added on its first visitor	One zone per listing. We only answer for domains a seller added, and your MX and TXT records come with you
HTTPS	Not documented in our research	Free certificate per domain and its www name, issued automatically after delegation
Who owns the buyer relationship	Not documented in our research	You. Offers arrive as a thread you own, relayed so your address stays private
EU hosting and GDPR	US	EU-hosted; visitor IPs hashed with a daily salt, no cookies
Visitor stats	Parking-network hit counts	Per-domain, classified human versus bot before you see the number
Status	Gone	Free while in beta

How do I move a parked portfolio over in an afternoon?

1. Export the list from whatever still has it: a registrar account, an old spreadsheet, the renewal invoice.
2. Add the domains in the portal, one at a time or as a pasted list.
3. Point the nameservers at ns1.nics.dev and ns2.nics.dev. Domains still pointing at a dead parking network have no working DNS, so this is also how you get them resolving again.
4. Wait for the check. We resolve the parent nameservers every few minutes; when they show our two names the page goes live and a certificate is issued.
5. Prune while you are in there. A domain nobody visits and nobody offers on is a renewal invoice with a page attached.

What nics.dev does not do

No ads and no revenue share, so there is no income while a domain waits. No payments and no held funds. A sale is handed to a third-party escrow service, and we record the state. No syndication to registrar networks. If you were parking for the ad cheque rather than for a sale, nics.dev does not replace that, and neither does anything else.

Questions

Why did Bodis shut down?

The ad money that paid for parking went away. Google wound AdSense for Domains down for the last time on 10 February 2026, and the parking networks that were built on it either closed or shrank. Bodis closed on 31 January 2026, on three days' notice.

My domain still points at ns1.bodis.com. What happens?

Nothing resolves. Bodis's nameservers no longer answer, so the domain has no working DNS at all until you point it somewhere else at your registrar.

Can I still earn ad revenue from a parked domain?

Not in any way this site can recommend. The subsidy that made free ad-funded parking work is gone, and parked pages now carry a reputation problem of their own: a December 2025 study found that more than 90% of parked-domain visits redirect to malicious destinations.

Does nics.dev pay me anything for traffic?

No. There are no ads on a nics.dev page and no revenue share. The page exists to sell the domain, and it is free while nics.dev is in beta.