Temporary placement of a newly purchased name on servers until a hosting plan is purchased or the owner points the DNS to a different site. ICANN: nternet orporation for ssigned ames and umbers. The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) is the non-profit corporation that was formed to assume responsibility for the IP address space allocation, protocol parameter assignment, domain name system management, and root server system management functions previously performed under U.S. Government contract by IANA and other entities. From ICANN Indian Domain Names (.in): Country Coded Top Level Domain Name for India. All .in domain names are registered and maintained by National Centre for Software Technology (NCST), a scientific R & D institution under the Ministry of Information Technology(MoIT), Government of India. .info: The first unrestricted top-level domain since .com, .info domains are available to the general public. IP Address: nternet rotocol Address. A unique number consisting of 4 parts separated by dots, e.g. 203.23.138.22 . Every machine that is on the Internet has a unique IP Address.
All domain names registered are required to point somewhere. Usually this is a website, but where one does not exist a domain name may be held or 'parked' on our name servers. This gives you the freedom to acquire your domain name as early as possible and make use of the e-mail forwarding addresses provided, until such time as your website is up and running. domain name parking service is included as standard with each domain name registered through Progredi e-Business. Also referred to as domain parking or name parking. See also: domain name | e-mail forwarding address
When you get a new domain name, you may not have completed your web site yet. You need to have a place to park your domain name under name servers until you are ready to build your web site. CJ Website Hosting will park your domain for free as well as give you free email forwarding and free domain redirection until you ready to upgrade to a web hosting solution. Open
Registries require the use of name servers or hosts for every domain registered. Domain Name Parking is the process by which someone selects a domain name, and "parks" it by registering the domain name under someone's name servers. Domain Name Parking can be done by anyone, to anyone else who has active name servers. However, parking a domain name alone will result in no service (webhosting, e-mail) for that particular domain name.
Registering a domain name before you are ready to use it.
All domain names have to be stored on a server in order to be purchased. Most domain registration services will therefore temporarily place a newly purchased name on their servers until a hosting plan is purchased or the owner points the DNS to a different site. This is known as parking.
Innerplanet gives you the option to 'park' your domain name without actually having your web site up and running. This is a nice option if you want to acquire a domain name for your web site well ahead of having the web site itself designed and constructed.