Activating Your Parked Domain Name

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When you register a domain name with GoDaddy.com, you have the option of parking the domain — that is, you don’t add a hosting plan and a Web site to the domain. You can park the domain as a money-making effort with, for example, Go Daddy’s CashParking program, or you can hold onto the domain as an investment and try to sell it for profit at a later date, but in most cases domain owners park their newly acquired domains until they’ve built their Web site and decided which hosting account they want to affiliate with the domain.

Once you’re ready to activate — or “unpack” — your parked domain, you must purchase a hosting account and then change the name server information on your Go Daddy account. This is how to do it:

• Go to GoDaddy.com and log in to your Account Manager.
• In the My Products section, select Domain Manager.
• Select the domain name(s) you want to modify.
• Click Nameservers.

Depending on your hosting provider, select one of the following:
If you’re hosting with Go Daddy: Choose I have a hosting account with these domains — This specifies that your domain name(s) are hosted with Go Daddy and you want to use their name servers.
If you’re hosting elsewhere: Choose I have specific nameservers for my domains to specify your domain name(s) are hosted with another company and allow you to enter the company’s name servers. Note that you must enter at least two name servers for your domain name.

•    Click OK.

It takes about 4-8 hours for .com and .net domains and about 24-48 hours for all other domain name extensions before name servers on other networks can access the information after the central registry receives it.