Domain Parking or Domain Forwarding – Difference

Domain Parking and Domain Forwarding are two entirely different things. When you buy a domain, in domain control panel the domain host provide you with two options. You can either Park your domain or you can forward your domain.

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Domain Parking

Domain parking option is chosen when you are not hosting any content on domain. Domain is not used yet for any email or website purpose. You have bought a domain, but you haven’t started a website yet or and you have plains to use it latter. When you park your domain and someone try to access this domain, your domain host provide open a page which will tell the visitors that your website is coming soon and has not yet launched.

Domain Forwarding.

Domain forwarding is used when you have a website and you want to point your domain to new website. This means when your domain name is entered into the address bar of browser your web page will open. Domain forwarding is used when domain host and webhosts are different. You are hosting your domain and website with different registrars. Domain registrars provide you with the option to forward your domain to your own webhost. For this purpose you have to change the A records of domain according to your webhost.

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Difference Between Domain Parking and Domain Forwarding.

Now you know that there is a clear difference between domain parking and domain forwarding. Domain parking is used when your website is not ready yet, domain is yet useless, has nothing to display, nothing is hosted on the domain. On the other hand Domain forwarding is completely a different thing. It is used when website is ready and you want to access your preformed webpage with the domain. It is used when you host your domain and website at different servers.

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