what is domain parking?
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Is it me wanting to hold on to domains related to what I do until I have time to create a website and then they can be used or is it something else?
I have seen companies offer free domain parking for 1 - 2 years and wondered if it means it mine or are they going to charge a lot when I want to use them?
If I domain park (assuming its reserve them) with one company am I bound in a contract to use that company when I want to fire them up?
Bit confused by the idea of it and nothing really tells me what it means other than people used to do it lots in the early days of the net to mkae money.
I have seen companies offer free domain parking for 1 - 2 years and wondered if it means it mine or are they going to charge a lot when I want to use them?
If I domain park (assuming its reserve them) with one company am I bound in a contract to use that company when I want to fire them up?
Bit confused by the idea of it and nothing really tells me what it means other than people used to do it lots in the early days of the net to mkae money.
Dupont666 said:
Is it me wanting to hold on to domains related to what I do until I have time to create a website and then they can be used or is it something else?
I have seen companies offer free domain parking for 1 - 2 years and wondered if it means it mine or are they going to charge a lot when I want to use them?
If I domain park (assuming its reserve them) with one company am I bound in a contract to use that company when I want to fire them up?
Bit confused by the idea of it and nothing really tells me what it means other than people used to do it lots in the early days of the net to mkae money.
As I understand it, domain parking generally requires you to hold your domain name and have a site sitting there, and the parker will then run adds through it which you can get revenue from. For instance, if you have a domain which was www.goigle.com you'd probably get a lot of traffic from people misstyping Google, but you might not get any revenue as people would realise they had made a mistake and go somewhere else.I have seen companies offer free domain parking for 1 - 2 years and wondered if it means it mine or are they going to charge a lot when I want to use them?
If I domain park (assuming its reserve them) with one company am I bound in a contract to use that company when I want to fire them up?
Bit confused by the idea of it and nothing really tells me what it means other than people used to do it lots in the early days of the net to mkae money.
Some also allow you to auction off your domain name.
If what you are wanting to do is register a domain name so no one else can use it until you are ready to, you don't really have to worry about domain parking. Just go to somewhere like fasthosts, getdotted etc and pay about £10 for two years registration. At the end of the two years you can either renew the registration or let it lapse. You own the domain name and can do what you wnat with it generally.
But surely you don't own the domain name if your paying circa £10 a year to have it? You're renting it.
I read recently that Facebook was originally called 'thefacebook.com' and later bought 'facebook.com' for £200000. Does this mean Facebook still have to pay the £10 per month or whatever?
I read recently that Facebook was originally called 'thefacebook.com' and later bought 'facebook.com' for £200000. Does this mean Facebook still have to pay the £10 per month or whatever?
It means nothing really, a 'parked' domain is no different to any other domain. All it really means is that (usually) the registrar you choose to use to register the domain will configure your domain to point to their servers and serve a holding page until you configure it to do anything else.
They get to advertise this as a feature, and will probably get a bit of free advertising out of it. You could 'park' a domain yourself using your own server and holding page, if you really wanted to.
As for if you own the domain or rent it, I don't know the legalities but I usually think of it like a house. You own your house and the land on which it's built, but you still have to pay council tax for the general upkeep of your neighbourhood/TLD network. Your council/registrar may impose certain conditions on what you do with your house, and in extreme cases could step in if action was required.
Oh and you can usually transfer your domains between registrars for free, some may impose a setup or release fee, most now don't. Your registrar, DNS provider and host don't have to be the same company.
They get to advertise this as a feature, and will probably get a bit of free advertising out of it. You could 'park' a domain yourself using your own server and holding page, if you really wanted to.
As for if you own the domain or rent it, I don't know the legalities but I usually think of it like a house. You own your house and the land on which it's built, but you still have to pay council tax for the general upkeep of your neighbourhood/TLD network. Your council/registrar may impose certain conditions on what you do with your house, and in extreme cases could step in if action was required.
Oh and you can usually transfer your domains between registrars for free, some may impose a setup or release fee, most now don't. Your registrar, DNS provider and host don't have to be the same company.
In Register1s case, parking just means you get no hosting, no forwarding of email or web, you just get the ability to manage the domain and control its DNS / Nameservers.
This would be an option you'd choose if you either want to point the domain at hosting you have elsewhere, or have no plans to use the domain at present and dont want it to point anywhere.
This would be an option you'd choose if you either want to point the domain at hosting you have elsewhere, or have no plans to use the domain at present and dont want it to point anywhere.
JamieBeeston said:
In Register1s case, parking just means you get no hosting, no forwarding of email or web, you just get the ability to manage the domain and control its DNS / Nameservers.
This would be an option you'd choose if you either want to point the domain at hosting you have elsewhere, or have no plans to use the domain at present and dont want it to point anywhere.
I registered two domain with Register1 today! This would be an option you'd choose if you either want to point the domain at hosting you have elsewhere, or have no plans to use the domain at present and dont want it to point anywhere.
What about owning though, how does that work? Can you ever actually own a domain?
10JH said:
JamieBeeston said:
In Register1s case, parking just means you get no hosting, no forwarding of email or web, you just get the ability to manage the domain and control its DNS / Nameservers.
This would be an option you'd choose if you either want to point the domain at hosting you have elsewhere, or have no plans to use the domain at present and dont want it to point anywhere.
I registered two domain with Register1 today! This would be an option you'd choose if you either want to point the domain at hosting you have elsewhere, or have no plans to use the domain at present and dont want it to point anywhere.
What about owning though, how does that work? Can you ever actually own a domain?
JamieBeeston said:
In Register1s case, parking just means you get no hosting, no forwarding of email or web, you just get the ability to manage the domain and control its DNS / Nameservers.
This would be an option you'd choose if you either want to point the domain at hosting you have elsewhere, or have no plans to use the domain at present and dont want it to point anywhere.
so if I wanted www.abc.co.uk and domain parked it with you for what ever it cost then its mine and no-one can touch it for 2 years and in that time I can build the site and start using it?This would be an option you'd choose if you either want to point the domain at hosting you have elsewhere, or have no plans to use the domain at present and dont want it to point anywhere.
Is that how it works?
Dupont666 said:
JamieBeeston said:
In Register1s case, parking just means you get no hosting, no forwarding of email or web, you just get the ability to manage the domain and control its DNS / Nameservers.
This would be an option you'd choose if you either want to point the domain at hosting you have elsewhere, or have no plans to use the domain at present and dont want it to point anywhere.
so if I wanted www.abc.co.uk and domain parked it with you for what ever it cost then its mine and no-one can touch it for 2 years and in that time I can build the site and start using it?This would be an option you'd choose if you either want to point the domain at hosting you have elsewhere, or have no plans to use the domain at present and dont want it to point anywhere.
Is that how it works?
J
JamieBeeston said:
Dupont666 said:
JamieBeeston said:
In Register1s case, parking just means you get no hosting, no forwarding of email or web, you just get the ability to manage the domain and control its DNS / Nameservers.
This would be an option you'd choose if you either want to point the domain at hosting you have elsewhere, or have no plans to use the domain at present and dont want it to point anywhere.
so if I wanted www.abc.co.uk and domain parked it with you for what ever it cost then its mine and no-one can touch it for 2 years and in that time I can build the site and start using it?This would be an option you'd choose if you either want to point the domain at hosting you have elsewhere, or have no plans to use the domain at present and dont want it to point anywhere.
Is that how it works?
J
Dupont666 said:
JamieBeeston said:
Dupont666 said:
JamieBeeston said:
In Register1s case, parking just means you get no hosting, no forwarding of email or web, you just get the ability to manage the domain and control its DNS / Nameservers.
This would be an option you'd choose if you either want to point the domain at hosting you have elsewhere, or have no plans to use the domain at present and dont want it to point anywhere.
so if I wanted www.abc.co.uk and domain parked it with you for what ever it cost then its mine and no-one can touch it for 2 years and in that time I can build the site and start using it?This would be an option you'd choose if you either want to point the domain at hosting you have elsewhere, or have no plans to use the domain at present and dont want it to point anywhere.
Is that how it works?
J
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