What Is Domain Parking?
Domain parking means registering a domain name without attaching it to a website or email service. The domain is essentially reserved and displays a placeholder page (or no content at all) until you are ready to use it.
Why Park a Domain?
- Brand protection: Register domain variations and common misspellings of your brand to prevent others from using them.
- Future projects: Secure a great domain name now for a website you plan to build later.
- Investment: Some people register domains with the intention of selling them later at a profit.
- Multiple extensions: Register your brand across several TLDs (
.com,.co.uk,.net) and park the ones you don't actively use.
How to Park a Domain at SillyHost
- Register or transfer the domain to your SillyHost account.
- If you do not associate a hosting package with the domain, it will automatically be parked.
- The domain will display a default SillyHost parking page indicating it has been registered.
Parked Domain vs Addon Domain
It is important to understand the difference:
- A parked domain has no hosting or content. It simply reserves the name.
- An addon domain is an additional domain added to an existing hosting account, pointing to its own directory with its own website files.
- A domain alias is a domain that points to the same content as your primary domain.
Costs
Parking a domain only requires the annual domain registration fee. No hosting plan is needed. However, if you want to display custom content or set up email, you will need to associate the domain with a hosting package.