There are two separate services you need for a working web site - a domain and a website hosting plan for it. If you type the domain in your Internet browser, you see the content that’s uploaded within the web hosting account, but if that Internet domain is not linked to such an account or to an e-mail service, it's parked. To put it differently, the domain is registered and you are its owner, but it does not have any content of its own. Instead, it can open either a pre-made “Under Construction / For Sale” Internet page from the registrar company, or it may be directed to any other URL of your choice. The advantage of parking a domain address is that you can keep it and make certain that no one else is going to take it. At the same time, it will not take a slot for a hosted domain address within your account. You can also park domain names if you have a .com, for instance, and you register domain addresses with other extensions like .net, .org or country-code ones to forward them to the main website as a way to protect a brand name.

Parked Domains in Shared Web Hosting

If you have a Linux shared web hosting with our company, you'll be able to park each of your domains with ease. The feature is available for the domain addresses registered with our company, and not for the ones that are only hosted here and pointed from some other company, as a domain address can be parked only through its registrar. Our Domain Manager instrument will enable you to select from a number of templates and you are going to be able to add your own text to any one of them. Forwarding a domain to a new URL is as easy as simply typing the Internet address and saving it. If you decide to host any of your parked domains, it takes just a click to do it and our system will do the rest - changing the name servers, creating a domain folder in your account, creating the necessary DNS records, etc. For easier administration, you'll be able to filter the domain names registered within the account by their status - parked or hosted.