There are two services you need for a functioning website - a domain plus a hosting plan for it. Each time you type the domain in your web browser, you see the content that’s uploaded in the hosting account, but if that domain is not linked to such an account or to an e-mail service, it is parked. To put it differently, the domain is registered and you're its owner, but it doesn't have any content of its own. As a substitute, it can open either a pre-made “Under Construction / For Sale” webpage from the registrar company, or it could be directed to any other URL of your choice. The main advantage of parking a domain name is that you can keep it and make certain that nobody else is going to take it. At the same time, it won't take a slot for a hosted domain name in your account. In addition, you can park domain names if you have a .com, for instance, and you register domain names with other extensions like .net, .org or country-code ones to forward them to the main web site as a way to protect a brand name.
Parked Domains in Shared Hosting
If you have a shared hosting with our company, you are going to be able to park any of your domain names easily. The feature is offered for the domain names registered with our company, and not for the ones that are only hosted here and pointed from another company, as a domain can be parked only through its registrar. Our Domain Manager tool will allow you to select from a number of different templates and you're going to be able to add your own text to each of them. Redirecting a domain address to another URL is as easy as simply typing the web address and saving it. If you would like to host any of your parked domain addresses, it takes just a mouse click to do it and our system will do the rest - changing the name servers, creating a domain folder in your account, setting up the required DNS records, etc. For much easier management, you'll be able to filter the domains registered inside the account by their status - parked or hosted.