What are parked domains?

Domain parking is essentially an activity wherein a domain name which when resolved will redirect to a minimally developed web page to increase the website traffic and the minimally developed website usually is filled with links and advertisements. The advertisements on these websites are based on the particular interest of the user. Based on the intent of the user, which can easily be got from the website he or she was actually looking for in the first place, though a brief search history of the user is also typically taken into account. The keywords help in generating advertisements and links which are more personalized to the specific user.

Another activity which comes under the purview of the phrase parked domains or domain parking is when a domain holder might choose to redirect a domain to another website either by pointing it as an alias of the main domain, domain cloaking or through URL redirection. Domains which are previous expired are also used as parked domains. Despite being expired all inbound links will now be redirected to the new website and these end up attracting a very large traffic from visitors who are possibly still looking for the previous website. All good cheap web hosting services offer a parked domain service.