{"id":1892,"date":"2021-05-28T16:38:59","date_gmt":"2021-05-28T13:38:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.scalahosting.com\/kb\/?p=1892"},"modified":"2026-11-13T07:14:48","modified_gmt":"2026-11-13T05:14:48","slug":"park-a-domain-registered-with-scalahosting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scalahosting.com\/kb\/park-a-domain-registered-with-scalahosting\/","title":{"rendered":"Park a domain registered with Scalahosting"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A <\/span><b>parked domain<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is a domain that doesn&#8217;t have its own functioning website behind it. It can be useful in many different scenarios.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><b>Here are a few examples:<\/b><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">You&#8217;re still <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scalahosting.com\/blog\/how-to-build-a-website-step-by-step-guide\/\"><b>building your website,<\/b><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and you don&#8217;t want anyone to register its domain before the launch. To ensure this doesn&#8217;t happen, you buy the domain and point it to an <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8220;Under Construction&#8221;<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> page.<\/span><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">You have a popular service often impersonated by phishing scammers who use visually similar or commonly mistyped versions of your domain to<\/span><b> lure unsuspecting victims.<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> To protect users, you register the likely candidates for phishing domains and point them to the<\/span><b> legitimate service.<\/b><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">You want to make sure<\/span><b> users get to your website<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> even if they&#8217;re unsure what your domain is. That&#8217;s why you register multiple different versions of your domain name <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(e.g., if your website is hosted under domain.com, you register domain.net) <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">and <\/span><b>point them all to your website.<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">How you&#8217;re going to go about parking a domain depends on the <\/span><b>control panel powering your account.<\/b><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For example, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scalahosting.com\/blog\/cloud-hosting\/\"><b>cPanel<\/b><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> refers to parked domains as <\/span><b>Aliases<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image mpg-gallery\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1373\" height=\"192\" src=\"https:\/\/www.scalahosting.com\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/aliases-cpanel.png\" alt=\"Park a domain registered with Scalahosting\" class=\"wp-image-1893\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.scalahosting.com\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/aliases-cpanel.png 1373w, https:\/\/www.scalahosting.com\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/aliases-cpanel-300x42.png 300w, https:\/\/www.scalahosting.com\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/aliases-cpanel-1024x143.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.scalahosting.com\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/aliases-cpanel-768x107.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 361px) 660px, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 910px, 1140px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The tool is available on cPanel&#8217;s homepage, and if you <\/span><b>add domains<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> with it, they will all direct users to your primary website.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image mpg-gallery\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1473\" height=\"379\" src=\"https:\/\/www.scalahosting.com\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/aliases-cpanel-interface.png\" alt=\"Park a domain registered with Scalahosting\" class=\"wp-image-1894\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.scalahosting.com\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/aliases-cpanel-interface.png 1473w, https:\/\/www.scalahosting.com\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/aliases-cpanel-interface-300x77.png 300w, https:\/\/www.scalahosting.com\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/aliases-cpanel-interface-1024x263.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.scalahosting.com\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/aliases-cpanel-interface-768x198.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 361px) 660px, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 910px, 1140px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As for <\/span><b>SPanel<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> users, getting additional domains to point to the <\/span><b>main website <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">requires adding them through SPanel&#8217;s User Interface and assigning them the same document root folder as your <\/span><b>primary domain.<\/b><\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image mpg-gallery\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"843\" height=\"162\" src=\"https:\/\/www.scalahosting.com\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/adding-domains-spanel.png\" alt=\"Park a domain registered with Scalahosting\" class=\"wp-image-1895\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.scalahosting.com\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/adding-domains-spanel.png 843w, https:\/\/www.scalahosting.com\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/adding-domains-spanel-300x58.png 300w, https:\/\/www.scalahosting.com\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/adding-domains-spanel-768x148.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 361px) 660px, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 910px, 1140px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If the <\/span><b>domains&#8217; nameservers <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">are set correctly, they will redirect users to your website.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image mpg-gallery\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1265\" height=\"359\" src=\"https:\/\/www.scalahosting.com\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/parked-domain-spanel.png\" alt=\"Park a domain registered with Scalahosting\" class=\"wp-image-1896\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.scalahosting.com\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/parked-domain-spanel.png 1265w, https:\/\/www.scalahosting.com\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/parked-domain-spanel-300x85.png 300w, https:\/\/www.scalahosting.com\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/parked-domain-spanel-1024x291.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.scalahosting.com\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/parked-domain-spanel-768x218.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 361px) 660px, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 910px, 1140px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If your site is not ready yet, and you want to set up an <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8220;Under Construction&#8221; 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