With the modernization of the Internet and the evolution of a much savvier group of users that is less likely to click ads, many domainers have complained about a fall in parking earnings.

According to a recent study conducted by the Online Publishers Association (OPA), all is not lost. Many domain owners have moved from parking to placing content-laden sites on their web real estate, a move the study says is in the right direction.

While the percentage of users arriving at a site through a direct type-in has fallen, the number of search engine users has increased dramatically over the last decade– a trend that gives preference to content-rich sites over generic parked pages.

The OPA states that the Internet populace spends a whopping 42% of its time on content sites. So if your domains are just sitting there parked and earning nothing, why not write a few articles and create a real website?

The study found that Americans viewed 16.8 billion hours of online video in April. That is 1,916 years, or two millenniums, worth. This marked a 16% increase from the previous month.

YouTube had the largest market share out of any video site. It accounted for nearly 40% of total viewership. Trailing far behind was FOX with 3%, Hulu with 2.4%, and Yahoo with 2.1%.

The 152 million web users tracked viewed an average of 111 videos per person. The average duration of each video was 3.5 minutes. Nearly 80% of American Internet users watch video online.

The study makes no mention of how many of these users were Rick-rolled, however.