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Parked domains (aliases)

Point an extra domain at an existing site as an alias.

What a parked domain is

A parked domain (sometimes called a domain alias) is a second domain that points at an existing site on your account. Both URLs serve the same content from the same document root.

Example: your site lives at example.com. You also buy example.net and park it on the same account. Visitors to either address see the same site.

When to use it

  • Catch common typos or alternative spellings of your domain.
  • Own both example.com and example.net (or country variants) and want them all to land on the same site.
  • Hold a domain you bought for the future without setting up a separate site yet.

Parked vs. addon vs. subdomain

TypeDocument rootBehaves like
SubdomainUsually a subfolderA new sub-site under your main domain
AddonA different folderA separate, independent website
ParkedSame folder as an existing siteAn alias for an existing site

How to park a domain

  1. At your registrar, point the parked domain at our nameservers (or add an A record pointing to our server’s IP).
  2. In the hosting panel, open Aliases (some panels label this Parked Domains).
  3. Type the parked domain name and click Add.

The panel updates DNS, and both URLs start serving the same site within minutes.

Make one of them the canonical URL

For SEO, pick one URL as canonical and 301-redirect the other to it. Add this to .htaccess in the document root, choosing whichever should be the primary:

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
  RewriteEngine On
  # Redirect example.net to example.com
  RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(?:www\.)?example\.net$ [NC]
  RewriteRule ^ https://example.com%{REQUEST_URI} [L,R=301]
</IfModule>