What is a Parked Domain?
A parked domain is a domain name that is ‘parked’ onto another domain. When the parked domain is used in your browser window, the website of the domain it is parked onto will come up, retaining the parked domain name in the browser address. The number of parked domains allowed is determined by your package.
A. Parking a domain can mean a couple of things. You may want to purchase a domain to reserve it for later use. Or you may want to have your current website accessible by more than one domain name (the most common use of this is registering .com, .net, & .org variations of the same name). Whatever reason you have, if you have a regular account with us, you can park additional domains for no additional cost (regular domain registration is necessary).
A parked domain is a domain that has been registered through a domain registrar that has no actual web site to point at. It is registered solely to reserve the domain name and prevent others from claiming it. [Back to top] • What is a domain pointer? A domain pointer is a domain that resolves to an IP address that another domain is already pointing at. For example, if you own the domain mywebsite1.com and you register a new domain by the name of mywebsite2.com, and you want both mywebsite1.com and mywebsite2.com to point to the same web site, mywebsite2.com would be considered a domain pointer. [Back to top] • How much does a pointer domain cost? For new domain names, all that you are responsible for is the domain registration fee. We will point your new domain to any of your existing domains or subdomains free of charge. Arias Web Hosting reserves the right to charge a setup fee ($1.00 per domain) for excessive domain pointers and to limit the number of pointer domains that will be ad
