Anyone still testing domain parking for micro niche traffic

I parked a few small niche domains just to test type in traffic and I’m seeing very mixed results, some get almost nothing, others still pull random visits, Is anyone still actively experimenting with parking sites in 2026 or is it basically dead now?

It's basically dead. Keyword matching domains are all taken. The ones which have good volume. Google ignores matching domains with no content and authority.
You might be getting traffic from people typing the domain and the extension (direct traffic and not google search).

Buying selling domains makes money and traffic arbitrage makes money which requires buying large amount of ads network traffic and strong traffic arbitrage history to get into ads display network like media.com.