A parked domain is one that's taken, however it's not associated with any other service - web or e mail hosting. Basically, this type of domain name will not open any actual content if you type it within an Internet browser, but nobody can take it as you've already registered it and you are its owner. The best thing about acquiring a domain name and parking it afterwards is that you can keep it and not stress that someone else might register it in the meantime if, for instance, the site for it is not ready yet. You are able to set a short-term Under Construction page for a parked domain address while you are working on your website, or forward it to some other web address - temporarily or permanently. The latter option can be employed when you have already registered domain.com, for instance, and you obtain domain.net and domain.org, so that you can protect a brand name or a trademark. In this situation, the .net and .org domain names can be parked and forwarded to the .com since you don't need different sites for them.