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.
In the DNS settings section, click Manage.
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.
In the DNS settings section, click Manage.
In the Advanced settings section, click Reset DNS settings.
Click Confirm.