A parked domain address is one that is taken, but it is not linked to any other service - web or e-mail hosting. Essentially, this type of domain name will not open any real content when you type it within an Internet browser, but nobody else can take it as you have already registered it and you are its owner. The main advantage of obtaining a domain and parking it afterwards is the fact that you are able to keep it and not worry that somebody else might register it meanwhile if, for instance, the site for it is not ready yet. You can set a temporary Under Construction page for a parked Internet domain while you're working on your web site, or direct it to another web address - temporarily or permanently. The second option can be used when you have already registered domain.com, for example, and you obtain domain.net and domain.org, so as 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 do not need individual sites for them.