If you wish to register a domain name to make certain that nobody else is going to take it, but you have not developed the website for it yet, you could park it. That is a service that registrar companies provide if a domain is not connected to any web or e mail hosting service. That way, you are able to protect a brand name, for example, and you'll own the domain name in question although it won't load any content. If you want, you may choose some standard template that the registrar provides, like For Sale or Under Construction, alternatively you can direct the domain name to an alternative web address. The second option is extremely helpful if you own a number of domain names, but you want all 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'll need hosting for the third domain address only and the traffic to the other ones will be redirected to it.