If you'd like to register a domain name to make sure that nobody else will take it, but you haven't built the website for it yet, you may park it. This is a feature that registrar companies offer when a domain isn't connected to any web or email hosting service. By doing this, you are able to protect a brand name, for instance, and you will own the domain in question even though it will not load any content. If you would like, you can choose some standard template that the registrar offers, like For Sale or Under Construction, or you can forward the domain name to an alternative web address. The second option is very helpful if you own a few domains, but you want each and every one of them to open the same website. As an illustration, you may 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 name only and the traffic to the other ones is going to be redirected to it.