There are two services that you need for a working website - a domain plus a hosting plan for it. Each time you type the domain in your web browser, you see the content that is uploaded in the web hosting account, but if that domain name isn't linked to such an account or to an email service, it's parked. To put it differently, the domain address is registered and you are its owner, but it lacks 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 can be forwarded to some other URL of your choice. The main benefit of parking a domain address is that you can keep it and be sure that nobody else is going to take it. Meanwhile, it will not occupy a slot for a hosted domain address inside your account. You can also park domains if you have a .com, for instance, and you register domains with other extensions such as .net, .org or country-code ones to forward them to the main web site in order to protect a brand name.
Parked Domains in Website Hosting
With each and every website hosting plan we offer you are able to park as many domain names as you would like and unlike other companies, we don't have any fees for that. Naturally, this can be done only for domain addresses that are registered through us since parking a domain is possible only through the registrar, but not through the host unless you have both services with the same company. We've got a feature-rich Domain Manager tool where you can effortlessly park and un-park domain names, pick one of the templates we offer and add custom text to it, or direct a domain address to a URL of your preference. If you host a parked domain name, our system will change its name servers and create a folder in the File Manager automatically. Also you can set filters to check out only the parked or only the hosted domain names, that will permit you to control them easy and fast.