There are two separate services you need for a functioning website - a domain name and a website hosting plan for it. Each time you type the domain address in your web browser, you see the content that is uploaded in the website hosting account, but if that domain is not linked to such an account or to an email service, it is parked. In other words, the domain is registered and you are its owner, but it does not have any content of its own. Instead, it can open either a pre-made “Under Construction / For Sale” Internet page from the registrar company, or it could be forwarded to some 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 is going to take it. In the meantime, it won't block a slot for a hosted domain inside your account. In addition, you can park domains if you have a .com, for example, and you register domain names with other extensions such as .net, .org or country-code ones to forward them to the main website as a way to protect a brand name.
Parked Domains in Shared Web Hosting
If you have a Linux shared web hosting packages from us, you will be able to park any of your domains effortlessly. The function is offered for the domain names registered with us, and not for the ones which are only hosted here and directed from some other company, because a domain name can be parked only through its registrar. Our Domain Manager instrument will permit you to choose from a number of templates and you are going to be able to add your own text to any of them. Forwarding a domain name to a different URL is as easy as only typing the web address and saving it. If you would like to host any of your parked domains, it takes only a mouse click to do it and our system will do the rest - changing the name servers, creating a domain folder in your account, setting up the needed DNS records, etc. For simpler control, you will be able to filter the domain names registered in the account by their status - parked or hosted.
Parked Domains in Semi-dedicated Hosting
If you purchase a semi-dedicated server plan from us, you can register and park as many domains as you want. Different to other providers, we are not going to charge you an additional fee for this feature. You are able to park a domain with just a couple of clicks using the Domain Manager tool, that you can access via the Hepsia hosting Control Panel. If you decide to use a template, you are going to have a few different ones to choose from and you'll be able to add custom text to any of them. The feature-rich Domain Manager allows you to set filters to check out only the hosted or only the parked domain names within your account. Through the same tool, you can also un-park a domain and host it within your account with only a click. Our system will change the name servers of the domain and will create its folder in the File Manager section, and the needed DNS records for it, automatically.