There are two separate services that you’ll need for a working website - a domain name and a website hosting plan for it. Each time you type the domain in your browser, you see the content that is uploaded within the website hosting account, but if that domain is not linked to such an account or to an e-mail service, it is parked. In other words, the domain is registered and you're its owner, but it doesn't have any content of its own. Instead, 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 advantage of parking a domain is that you can keep it and make sure that nobody else is going to take it. Meanwhile, it will not occupy a slot for a hosted Internet domain inside your account. In addition, you can park domains if you have a .com, for instance, and you register domain addresses with other extensions like .net, .org or country-code ones to direct them to the main website so as to protect a brand name.
Parked Domains in Shared Website Hosting
With each and every shared website hosting plan we offer you’ll be able to park as many domain addresses as you want and in contrast to other companies, we do not have any service fees for that. Needless to say, you can do this just for domains which are registered through us because parking a domain is possible only with the registrar, but not through the host unless you have the two services with the exact same company. We have got a feature-rich Domain Manager tool where you can effortlessly park and un-park domains, select one of the templates we offer and add custom text to it, or forward a domain address to a URL of your preference. If you host a parked domain, our system will modify its name servers and create a folder in the File Manager automatically. Additionally you can set filters to check out only the parked or only the hosted domains, which will permit you to manage them fast and easy.