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:

  1. From your Shopify admin, go to Settings > Domains.

  2. Click the domain that you want to park.

  3. Click Domain settings > Edit DNS settings.

  4. Locate the CNAME record pointing to shops.shopify.com, and then click Actions > Remove.

  5. Click Remove.

  6. 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::
  7. 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:

  1. From your Shopify admin, go to Settings > Domains.

  2. Click the parked domain that you want to reset to the default configuration.

  3. Click Domain settings > Edit DNS settings.

  4. In the Advanced settings section, click Reset DNS settings.

  5. Click Confirm.

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