A parked domain is one that's taken, but it's not linked to another service - web or e-mail hosting. Essentially, this kind of domain address will not load any actual content when you type it in an Internet browser, but nobody else can take it as you have already registered it and you are its owner. The advantage of obtaining a domain name and parking it afterwards is the fact that you will be able to keep it and not worry that somebody else may register it in the meantime if, for instance, the website for it is not ready yet. You may create a short-term Under Construction page for a parked domain while you're working on the web site, or direct it to another web address - temporarily or permanently. The second option can be used when you have already registered domain.com, for instance, and you acquire domain.net and domain.org, so as to protect a brand name or a trademark. In cases like this, the .net and .org domains can be parked and directed to the .com as you do not need different websites for them.

Parked Domains in Shared Website Hosting

If you have a Linux shared website hosting packages from us, you're going to be able to park all of your domain names easily. The function is available for the domain names registered with our company, 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 instrument will allow you to choose from a variety of templates and you'll be able to add custom text to any of them. Forwarding a domain name to another URL is as easy as just typing the Internet address and saving it. If you decide to host any of your parked domains, it takes simply a mouse click to do it and our system is going to do the rest - changing the name servers, creating a domain folder in your account, setting up the necessary DNS records, etc. For much easier administration, you're going to be able to filter the domain addresses registered inside the account by their status - parked or hosted.