A parked domain is one that is taken, but it is not linked to another service - web or email hosting. Essentially, this type of domain name won't open any actual content when you type it inside a browser, but no one can take it as you have already registered it and you are its owner. The best thing about getting a domain and parking it afterwards is that you will be able to keep it and not worry that someone else could possibly register it in the meantime if, for instance, the website for it is not ready yet. You may set a short-term Under Construction website page for a parked Internet domain while you're working on the web site, or direct it to another web address - temporarily or permanently. The latter option can be employed if you have already registered domain.com, for instance, and you get domain.net and domain.org, in order to protect a brand name or a trademark. In such a case, the .net and .org domain names can be parked and forwarded to the .com as you don't need different sites for them.