If you'd like to register a domain name to make sure that no one else is going to take it, but you haven't built the web site for it yet, you may park it. It's a service that registrar companies provide when a domain is not linked to any web or e mail hosting service. By doing this, you'll be able to protect a brand name, for instance, and you'll own the domain name in question although it won't open any content. If you want, you can select some standard template that the registrar offers, such as For Sale or Under Construction, you can also direct the domain name to another web address. The second option is extremely helpful in case you own a number of domain names, but you want all of them to open the same website. As an illustration, you could register domain.net and domain.org, then park them and direct them to domain.com. In this example, you'll need hosting for the third domain address only and the traffic to the other ones will be redirected to it.