Parked Domains

A parked Internet domain is one that's taken, but it is not associated with another service - web or email hosting. Essentially, this kind of domain name won't open any actual content if you type it within an Internet browser, but no one else can take it as you have already registered it and you are its owner. The advantage of getting a domain and parking it afterwards is that you will be able to keep it and not stress that someone else could possibly register it in the meantime if, for instance, the website for it is not ready yet. You could create a temporary Under Construction website page for a parked domain address while you're working on the web site, or direct it to some other web address - temporarily or permanently. The latter option can be employed if you have already registered domain.com, for instance, and you acquire domain.net and domain.org, so that you can protect a brand name or a trademark. In this case, the .net and .org domain names can be parked and forwarded to the .com because you don't need separate websites for them.