There are two separate services you'll need for a functioning website - a domain and a hosting plan for it. If you type the domain address in your browser, you see the content that is uploaded in the website hosting account, but if that Internet domain isn't linked to such an account or to an e-mail service, it is parked. Put simply, the domain name is registered and you're its owner, but it does not 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 can be directed to any other URL of your choice. The main advantage of parking a domain is that you can keep it and be sure that no one else will take it. At the same time, it won't occupy a slot for a hosted domain name inside your account. In addition, you can park domain names if you have a .com, for instance, and you register domains with other extensions like .net, .org or country-code ones to direct them to the main web site so as to protect a brand name.
Parked Domains in Cloud Hosting
If you have a Linux cloud hosting with us, you'll be able to park any of your domain names easily. The function is offered for the domain addresses registered with us, and not for the ones which are only hosted here and directed from some other company, since a domain can be parked only through its registrar. Our Domain Manager instrument will allow you to choose from a variety of templates and you are going to be able to include custom text to each of them. Redirecting a domain name to a different URL is as easy as only typing the Internet address and saving it. If you would like to host any of your parked domain names, it takes just a mouse click to do it and our system is going to do the rest - changing the name servers, creating a domain folder in your account, setting up the needed DNS records, etc. For much easier management, you're going to be able to filter the domains registered inside the account by their status - parked or hosted.