Put very simply, a parked domain (or parking a domain) is when you purchase a domain name such as Usually, when you set up or start a website you would want to register your domain name<\/a> for an annual fee. Then, you'd point the domain to a website<\/a> so that the website appears when visitors go to the domain name.<\/p>\n In some cases though, you may just want to purchase the domain name initially and park it, ready for use later.<\/p>\n By definition, parking your domain means you don'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:<\/p>\n There are services out there that will allow you to have free domain parking in exchange for a percentage of the earnings made through advertisements on your parked page. If you have no interest in making money off your parked domains and just want to park them for future use, you can use your registrars free option to park this at no cost.<\/p>\n The below domain registrars<\/a> all offer a free parked domain option:<\/p>\n If you are looking to make money from your parked domains, I'd recommend using Sedo<\/a>. It's free to park your domain with them (many others charge you a fee and a large percentage of your advertising revenue) and they have a very active and large marketplace.<\/p>\n Personally, I do not park domains because there is a danger that people may associate the ad-heavy parked pages with your domain name<\/a> if you later decide to add a website to that domain. The cost of your brand and reputation may suffer because of this. This is why I do something a little different with domains to allows me to “park” them myself.<\/p>\n This is a great way to manage your domain names if you're not ready to build your site just yet and don't want to park your domain name either.<\/p>\n What I do is take one of my unlimited web hosting accounts<\/a>, which lets me add as many domain names to the account as I like, and I add each domain to this account when I purchase them. Then I create a very simple This works so well because shared web hosting is very cheap<\/strong> and it only costs me $3.99 a month to run my unlimited Web Hosting Hub<\/a> account.<\/p>\n Here's my step-by-step process for parking my own domains:<\/p>\n For the grand total of $3.99 a month I can have as many parked domains as I like and I can completely control what content is show on those parked pages as well. I can control my brand and my reputation and I get to keep 100% of any revenue I make.<\/p>\n So, you can see that domain name parking is a very simple concept and it is also something you can do very easily yourself too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This article explains what a parked domain is, how parking works and how you can easily park your own domain name if you want to.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sitebeginner.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1226"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sitebeginner.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sitebeginner.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sitebeginner.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sitebeginner.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1226"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sitebeginner.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1226\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sitebeginner.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sitebeginner.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sitebeginner.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}sitebeginner.com<\/code> but you don't associate it with any web services like email or web hosting. Instead, you “park” it for later use – often with a landing page or holding page.<\/p>\nWhy you might want to park your domain name<\/h4>\n
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Domain name parking services<\/h4>\n
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My alternative to domain name parking<\/h4>\n
index.html<\/code> page with a little bit of content about the domain and, if I want to, some Google Adsense advertising.<\/p>\n\n
index.html<\/code> file, similar to my Dreamweaver tutorial<\/a><\/li>\n