A parked Internet domain is one that's taken, yet it is not connected to another service - web or e mail hosting. Put simply, this kind of domain name will not load any real content if you type it inside an Internet browser, but no one else can take it as you've already registered it and you are its owner. The benefit of obtaining a domain and parking it afterwards is the fact that you’re able to keep it and not stress that somebody else may register it in the meantime if, for instance, the site for it is not ready yet. You can set a short-term Under Construction webpage for a parked Internet domain while you are working on the website, or forward it to some other web address - temporarily or permanently. The second option can be employed when you have already registered domain.com, for instance, and you acquire domain.net and domain.org, so as to protect a brand name or a trademark. In such a case, the .net and .org domains can be parked and forwarded to the .com as you don't need different websites for them.