The Hidden Purpose of Parked Domains: What Every Website Owner Needs to Know
By contrast, a parked domain is a domain you’ve purchased but haven’t built a full site for yet. You can:
- Hold it as a placeholder to reserve the name.
- Set it to display a “Coming Soon” page.
- Redirect it to one of your active WordPress.com sites.
Let’s say you run a developer-themed coffee blog called java-script-coffee-sip.com. To protect your brand (and catch creative spinoffs), you also register ssh-pls.com and upload-down-code.com. You park those domains and redirect them to your main blog—if someone types them in or clicks a link, they’ll still land on your primary site.
