If you'd like to register a domain name to make certain that no one else will take it, however, you have not developed the web site for it yet, you can park it. This is a feature that registrar companies provide if a domain is not linked to any web or e mail hosting service. That way, you can protect a brand name, for example, and you'll own the domain address in question even though it will not open any content. If you want, you may choose some standard template that the registrar offers, such as For Sale or Under Construction, you can also forward the domain name to a different web address. The second option is extremely helpful in case you own a few domain names, but you want every one of them to open the same site. For instance, you could register domain.net and domain.org, then park them and direct them to domain.com. In this example, you will need hosting for the third domain address only and the traffic to the other ones is going to be redirected to it.