> ## Documentation Index
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# Parking Domains

> Park domains you own but don't actively send from — defensive registrations, legacy domains, or redirects — so they stay in your account without using a slot or cluttering your reports.

A **parked** domain stays in your portfolio, but:

* Monitoring is paused
* No reports are processed
* It does **not** count toward your domain slot limit, and it is not billable

You can reactivate (un-park) a domain at any time, as long as a free slot is available

## When to park a domain

Parking is built for domains you own but don't actively send mail from:

* **Defensive brand registrations** — look-alike or alternate-spelling domains you registered so others can't use them.
* **Legacy domains** — domains you keep but no longer send from.
* **Redirects** — domains that only forward to a primary site.

It also helps with slot management. When moving from a **trial** to the **Free plan** (which allows a single active domain), park the others instead of removing them so you keep their history. On a **Scale** plan, parking lets you free a slot for another domain without losing the parked one.

<Info>
  Parked domains let you keep complete brand coverage without noise in your reports. They are shown separately from your purchased slots in the [Domain overview](/domain-overview).
</Info>

## How to park a domain

<Steps>
  <Step title="Open the Domains page">
    Select **Domains** in the left navigation.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Open the domain's actions menu">
    Click the **⋮** menu at the end of the domain's row.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Select Park domain">
    Choose **Park domain**. The domain moves to **Parked** status, its slot is released, and monitoring pauses.
  </Step>
</Steps>

To bring a domain back, open the same **⋮** menu and un-park it. Reactivating moves the domain to **Active** and occupies one free slot.

## Showing and hiding parked domains

In the [Domain overview](/domain-overview), the **Parked** and **Unparked** filters above the table let you show or hide parked domains, and the **Parked Domains** card shows how many you have. Because parked domains use no slot, they are counted separately from your purchased slots.

## How parking affects billing

Parked domains are never billable — a slot is only consumed while a domain is **Active** or **Pending**. For the full breakdown of which domains count toward your plan, see [Which domains count as billable?](/which-domains-count-as-billable) and [Domain status](/domain-status).

<Note>
  Subdomains that DMARCeye detects automatically from your reports are parked by default, so they never use a slot until you choose to activate them. See [Subdomains](/subdomains).
</Note>