A parked domain is one that is taken, however it's not linked to another service - web or e mail hosting. Basically, this kind of domain address will not load any real content if you type it inside an Internet browser, but no one else can take it as you have already registered it and you are its owner. The benefit of acquiring a domain and parking it afterwards is that you can keep it and not worry that someone else might register it in the meantime if, for instance, the site for it is not ready yet. You can set a temporary Under Construction webpage for a parked Internet domain while you're working on the site, or forward it to another web address - temporarily or permanently. The latter option can be used when you have already registered domain.com, for instance, and you get domain.net and domain.org, in order to protect a brand name or a trademark. In this situation, the .net and .org domain addresses can be parked and directed to the .com as you do not need separate sites for them.

Parked Domains in Shared Web Hosting

If you have a Linux shared web hosting through us, you're going to be able to park all of your domain names easily. The function is available for the domain addresses registered with us, and not for the ones that are only hosted here and directed from another company, because a domain address can be parked only through its registrar. Our Domain Manager tool will allow you to pick from a number of different templates and you will be able to add your own text to each of them. Forwarding a domain address to a new URL is as easy as just typing the Internet address and saving it. If you decide to host any of your parked domain names, it takes simply a mouse click to do it and our system will do the rest - changing the name servers, setting up a domain folder in your account, setting up the needed DNS records, etc. For much easier control, you'll be able to filter the domain names registered within the account by their status - parked or hosted.