The domain name business, which is a distant cousin at least to the web hosting business, has a lot of confusing terms of its own.  One of those, that might be hard to wrap your mind around is domain name parking.  What is it?

Domain parking usually refers to a domain name that has been pointed at a single web page, that may have a “coming soon” or “under construction” message on it.  It is a hold place for a domain name you might not be using right now, but you still don’t want to error out when somebody tries to visit it.

Many domain name registers offer this service, because it can be a way to monetize.  For an example, let’s say I have a really good domain name,  but don’t have the time to develop it right now.  I park the domain name with my domain name register, and they let me put a few ads up there to make money.

The domain name is likely to get a lot of type-in traffic, so for the time being, that domain name will be making me a little money with no effort until I have the time to develop a web site for it.

So, as you can see, domain name parking does have it’s practical uses.