Domain parking refers to the registration of an internet domain name
without that domain being associated with any services such as e-mail
or a website. Domain parking can be classified as monetized and non-
monetized. This may have been done with a view to reserving the
domain name for future development, and to protect against the
possibility of cyber squatting. Domain parking may also refer to an
advertising practice, more precisely called "parked domain
monetization".
To add a parked domain, please do the following:
1. Login to c Panel and click the Parked Domains icon.
2. In the box to the right of New Domain Name, provide the domain
name for which you would like to park on top of your primary
domain.
3. Click Add Domain.
To remove a parked domain, please do the following:
1. Login to c Panel and click Parked Domains.
2. At the bottom, under Actions,
3. click Remove.
Another use of domain parking is to be a placeholder for an
existing web site. The domain holder might also choose to redirect
a domain to another website it has registered, either through URL
redirection,domain cloaking or by pointing it as an alias of the
main domain, although if this is done by the ultimate registrant, the
domain is then in use, rather than parked.
Expired domains that were formerly websites are also sought after
for parked domain monetization. A domain that was used as a
website and is allowed to expire will still maintain most of its prior
inbound links. These types of domains usually attract their largest
amount of visitor traffic initially after being claimed from the
domain drop lists. As website operators and search engines begin
to remove the former inbound links, the traffic to the parked
domain will begin to decline. The process of re-registering expired
names is known as drop catching and various domain name
register have differing views on it.
There are several companies that actively cater to domain name
holders and act as middlemen to serve advertisements on parking
pages. The parking pages are propagated automatically on a domain
holder's web property when they either change the name servers or
forward the URL.