{"id":24487,"date":"2022-02-02T14:37:33","date_gmt":"2022-02-02T14:37:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/1-grid.com\/knowledge\/why-does-my-domain-have-a-1-grid-landing-page\/"},"modified":"2023-04-19T07:40:45","modified_gmt":"2023-04-19T07:40:45","slug":"why-does-my-domain-have-a-1-grid-landing-page","status":"publish","type":"ht_kb","link":"https:\/\/1grid.co.za\/knowledge\/why-does-my-domain-have-a-1-grid-landing-page\/","title":{"rendered":"Why does my domain have a 1-grid landing page ?"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\">This article provides you with information as to why your domain shows a 1-grid landing page upon registration or in some cases where no website content exists.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica,sans-serif;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica,sans-serif;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica,sans-serif;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"fr-fic fr-dib fr-bordered fr-shadow aligncenter\" style=\"width: 480px;\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/cdn.freshdesk.com\/data\/helpdesk\/attachments\/production\/33042165259\/original\/IMLOdt4XmRPGRRlF31ck8jVvPSri_22tFQ.png?1592462608\" height=\"287\" data-attachment=\"[object Object]\" data-id=\"33042165259\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica,sans-serif;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\">At 1-grid our business is helping our customers get online. Thus when you register a new domain name a landing page is automatically added to the parking space to show whoever visits your domain that you are active and online. A lot of start-ups just set up their domain but may not use it for a while, and in larger organizations, the person who takes responsibility for the web site may not know who they need to speak to, so the links on our landing page are provided to guide customers who may not remember where they sourced their website\/domain from when they are ready to set up their web presence.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica,sans-serif;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica,sans-serif;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\"><strong>Why do we add landing pages?<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica,sans-serif;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\">To avoid unused websites showing empty directory listing or blank pages<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\">In some instances, especially for larger companies, it makes it easy to identify at which hosting provider a domain and website are hosted based on the landing page.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica,sans-serif;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\"><strong>On which hosting accounts are landing pages automatically added?<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica,sans-serif;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\">Domain parking accounts that come with new domain registrations.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Shared hosting accounts where no index page is specified or no website content exists<\/span>.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica,sans-serif;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica,sans-serif;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\"><strong>How can I remove the 1-grid landing page?<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica,sans-serif;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\"><strong>Parking packages<\/strong><\/span>\n<ol>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Purchase a hosting account and add a website<\/span> &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/1-grid.com\/web-hosting\/\">https:\/\/1-grid.com\/web-hosting\/<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica,sans-serif;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\"><strong>Shared hosting<\/strong><\/span>\n<ol>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\">Add content to your web hosting space by setting up a website, common CMS\u2019s are WordPress and Joomla<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\">Create your own custom landing page and update the content of your accounts index page<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica,sans-serif;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica,sans-serif;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica,sans-serif;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This article provides you with information as to why your domain shows a 1-grid landing page upon registration or in some cases where no website content exists. \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 At 1-grid our business is helping our customers get online. 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