Parking Domains

[Pork]

I currently have a website domain.com.au, an American branch of the company who own domain.com are currently having their site built and want to forward there domain.com to domain.com.au while construction is taking place.

Are there any negative effects to parking the domain.com on my domain.com.au?

What is the best method to do this without causing any problems for my domain.com.au?

[zeepartner]

yes, this is definitely not a good thing to do. if they already own domain.com and have their site indexed they should definitely not move it to another domain. they can build their site on any domain or subdomain while still keeping the current site active on domain.com.

if this is not an option, you could - for a short time - 302 redirect (temporary) domain.com to domain.com.au. but i wouldn't do this for more than 1-2 weeks max.

but either way, you won't cause any problems for domain.com.au, only for domain.com

[Pork]

Thanks,

Should have clarified, the domain.com is a new domain that is currently not indexed in the search engines.

Also my concern is only with the domain.com.au

[zeepartner]

hmm, so i'm not sure what you mean by "parking". will the content of your domain be affected in any way? or is it only that they temporarily redirect their traffic to domain.com.au?

parked domains themselves are no good for Google: http://searchengineland.com/google-parked-domains-scraper-sites-targeted-amongsearch-changes-103302 (look for "Parked Domains Get Ticketed")

[Cyrus-Shepard]

If I understand correctly, the American branch is building an entirely new website, and in the meantime they want to direct any traffic that comes through their domain to a landing page at com.au. Is that correct?

Will there will be any negative consequences to your .au site? In most cases, no, and this might even make perfect business sense if the parent company is the most appropriate place to direct people. If the American .com has a clean backlink profile, then directing any traffic to the .com.au site should be fine.

Unfortunately, without looking at the sites in question there are a lot of unknown variables and it would be almost impossible to account for them all in the space of this answer. In the end, I think you should be fine, but in the case that, you do experience any negative consequences, simply reverse the change and you should be okay