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Parking and unparking a domain name
by Wild West Domains staff, edited by Mohan Kapoor, Supervisor, Himalayan Websites
To park a domain name essentially means to reserve your registered domain name until you have created the site content, found a web hosting provider, or sold the domain to a third party. When you park your site, a temporary Web page will be displayed until you have decided what to do with the domain. Domain name parking is often used by registrants who do not yet have a hosting provider.
Parking options include a one-page Web site that will inform visitors to the site that this page is “Under Construction”, “Coming Soon", or “For Sale”. You can also elect to have a customised page displayed. To set up your parked domain, use the One-Page Web Site Setup Wizard in the “Parked Pages” section of the account management.
Once you have determined that your web site should become visible to the world, you unpark it. For this to happen you must change the information of the name servers so that the site is no longer parked.
- Click on Domain Names
- Log in with your user name and password. A list of your registered domains will be displayed.
- Select the domain from the list.
- Click "Modify Name Servers".
- Enter the new name server information, for example NS10.ZONEEDIT.COM and NS12.ZONEEDIT.COM
- Click "Save Changes".
The changes can take up to 72 hours to take effect.