A parked domain name is one that's taken, but it is not linked to any other service - web or e-mail hosting. Essentially, this kind of domain name will not load any real content when you type it inside a web browser, but nobody 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’ll be able to keep it and not stress that someone else might register it meanwhile if, for instance, the website for it is not ready yet. You may create a short-term Under Construction webpage for a parked domain while you are working on your web site, 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 example, and you obtain domain.net and domain.org, so that you can protect a brand name or a trademark. In such a case, the .net and .org domain names can be parked and directed to the .com since you don't need separate websites for them.