{"id":24507,"date":"2022-02-02T14:38:32","date_gmt":"2022-02-02T14:38:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/1-grid.com\/knowledge\/what-is-domain-parking\/"},"modified":"2023-04-17T11:51:02","modified_gmt":"2023-04-17T11:51:02","slug":"what-is-domain-parking","status":"publish","type":"ht_kb","link":"https:\/\/1grid.co.za\/knowledge\/what-is-domain-parking\/","title":{"rendered":"What is domain parking?"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\">This article provides you with information regarding domain parking.<\/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<h1><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\"><strong>What is domain parking?<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/h1>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica,sans-serif;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\">Put very simply, a parked domain (or parking a domain) is when you purchase a domain name such as myfuturesite.com but you don&#8217;t associate it with any web services like email or web hosting. Instead, you \u201cpark\u201d it for later use \u2013 often with a landing page or holding page.\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<h2 style=\"box-sizing: border-box; letter-spacing: -1px; line-height: 1em; margin: 0px 0px 20px; font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; color: #000000; font-family: 'Proxima Nova', 'Lucida Grande', Helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;\"><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 18px;\"><strong>Why you might want to park your domain name?<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\">By definition, parking your domain means you don&#8217;t intend to use it right away. Much like you might park your car ready for use later. There are plenty of good reasons why you may want to use domain parking for your new name:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica,sans-serif;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<ul style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 30px 40px; padding: 0px; color: #222222; font-family: 'Proxima Nova', 'Lucida Grande', Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 200; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;\">\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\">You haven&#8217;t had time to start your website yet. To use your domain name, you need to be able to point it towards a web hosting account.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\">You&#8217;re buying domains to reserve them for later use. Parking a domain or domains that you want to use later makes sense because once you do have hosting ready, you can quickly connect them and start to\u00a0create your website using the domain names \u2013 it also prevents somebody from registering them in the mean time and protects your name.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\">To generate additional income. You might not have a particular\u00a0idea for a website, but are instead investing in a good quality domain name. Here, you can display advertising on your parked page to earn income whenever somebody visits your page and clicks on one of the advertisements. It&#8217;s very quick and easy to do, and is passive income in that you don&#8217;t need to do anything for it to continue.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\">You no longer need your website and are waiting for it to expire. If you have many websites, you may want to park the ones you no longer intend to keep until they expire \u2013 again, you can earn additional income from these until they have expired.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\"><strong>What&#8217;s an alternative to domain name parking?<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\">This is a great way to manage your domain names if you&#8217;re not ready to build your site just yet and don&#8217;t want to park your domain name either.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">What we suggest is adding the domain to an already<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/1-grid.com\/knowledge\/cpanel-how-to-add-delete-an-addon-domain\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">active hosting package as an addon domain.<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\">Then you can create a very simple index.html page with a little bit of content about the domain and, if I want to, some Google Adsense advertising.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This article provides you with information regarding domain parking. \u00a0 \u00a0 What is domain parking? 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