Parked Pages Suck
Yeah, it works for the sites that already have traffic, but if your site doesn’t have traffic, then you aren’t going to cash.
If you don’t feel like counting pennies, create a blog like this one and forward your links to it and get “type-in” traffic. That way at least you are getting traffic and grooming your one of the domain’s value. More and more domain gurus are coming to the realization that the best way to monetize a domain is to provide original content for it.
If you want to build a website and make money off of it, I strongly suggest you pick one site and devote yourself only to that site. Maintaining too many websites will spread you too thin.
I will tell you how to build and monetize a website for beginners in the next entry.