Parking your Shopify domain
Parked domains are domains that are registered and not associated with a website or email hosting. You might want to park your domain to reserve the domain name to protect it from being purchased by another person. You can also park a domain that is expiring soon and you aren't renewing.
For third-party domains, contact your third-party domain provider for support. This tutorial covers parking Shopify-managed domains. To reconnect your domain after parking the domain, you need to connect the domain to Shopify again.
For Shopify-managed domains that are expiring and you don't want to renew, you might also want to deactivate the automatic renewal.
Park a Shopify-managed domain
You can park a domain by editing the DNS settings in your Shopify admin.
Steps:
- From your Shopify admin, go to Settings > Domains.
- Click the domain that you want to park.
- Click Domain settings > Edit DNS settings.
- Locate the CNAME record pointing to shops.shopify.com, and then click Actions > Remove.
- Click Remove.
- For any A records or AAAA records, click Actions > Edit for the record you want to change and make the following updates:
- A Record = 0.0.0.0
- AAAA Record = 0:0:0:0::
- Click Confirm.
Reconnecting a Shopify-managed domain
To reconnect a parked Shopify-managed domain, you can reset your DNS settings to the default configuration. Resetting your settings deletes all your records except the A record, the AAAA record, and CNAME record, which are reset to point to Shopify.
Steps:
- From your Shopify admin, go to Settings > Domains.
- Click the parked domain that you want to reset to the default configuration.
- Click Domain settings > Edit DNS settings.
- In the Advanced settings section, click Reset DNS settings.
- Click Confirm.