diff --git a/apps/desktop/extensions/ai-sidebar/moshpit.js b/apps/desktop/extensions/ai-sidebar/moshpit.js
index fda93cf..4dc3401 100644
--- a/apps/desktop/extensions/ai-sidebar/moshpit.js
+++ b/apps/desktop/extensions/ai-sidebar/moshpit.js
@@ -18,13 +18,23 @@ export const DEFAULT_CONSOLE_BASE = 'https://app.moshcode.sh';
 // `mosh.eggs` and own the page people use to check who holds `.eggs`.
 export const CONSOLE_LABEL = 'mosh';
 
-// Where a name with no destination yet is parked. A name inside the namespace
-// should never dead-end on ERR_NAME_NOT_RESOLVED.
-export const DEFAULT_PARKING_BASE = 'https://moshcoding.com';
+// Where a name with no destination yet is parked.
+//
+// The registry's own /n/<name>, which is also where a *pointed* name is
+// fetched — one route handles both, because "what is behind this name" and
+// "there is nothing behind this name yet" are the same question with different
+// answers. It shows what else lives under that ending and which endings are
+// related, so an unclaimed name is a way into the namespace instead of a dead
+// end.
+//
+// It was moshcoding.com/parking, which has never existed — that is the Next.js
+// site, not the registry, and it has no such route. Every unpointed name
+// 404'd, which is indistinguishable from the namespace not working.
+export const DEFAULT_PARKING_BASE = 'https://pit.moshcode.sh';
 
 /** The parking page for a name with no destination yet. */
 export function parkingUrlFor(name, parkingBase = DEFAULT_PARKING_BASE) {
-  return `${parkingBase.replace(/\/+$/, '')}/parking?name=${encodeURIComponent(name)}`;
+  return `${parkingBase.replace(/\/+$/, '')}/n/${encodeURIComponent(name)}`;
 }
 
 /**
diff --git a/apps/desktop/extensions/ai-sidebar/moshpit.test.js b/apps/desktop/extensions/ai-sidebar/moshpit.test.js
index 1aa3c09..3481b7c 100644
--- a/apps/desktop/extensions/ai-sidebar/moshpit.test.js
+++ b/apps/desktop/extensions/ai-sidebar/moshpit.test.js
@@ -138,7 +138,7 @@ describe('destinationFor — parking', () => {
     globalThis.chrome = { storage: { local: { get: async () => ({ moshpitConfig: { mode: 'clearnet' } }) } } };
     globalThis.fetch = async () => ({ ok: true, json: async () => ({ name_registered: false, target: null }) });
     expect(await js.destinationFor('california.oranges', false)).toBe(
-      'https://moshcoding.com/parking?name=california.oranges',
+      'https://pit.moshcode.sh/n/california.oranges',
     );
   });
 
@@ -168,7 +168,7 @@ describe('lookupMoshpit — the registry payload as it really is', () => {
       prefer: 'fallback',
     });
     expect(await js.destinationFor('california.oranges', false)).toBe(
-      'https://moshcoding.com/parking?name=california.oranges',
+      'https://pit.moshcode.sh/n/california.oranges',
     );
   });
 
@@ -232,3 +232,31 @@ describe('the lookup budget', () => {
     expect(js.DEFAULT_LOOKUP_TIMEOUT_MS).toBeLessThanOrEqual(10000);
   });
 });
+
+describe('parking sends a name somewhere that exists', () => {
+  it('parks at the registry, not at a route nobody ever built', () => {
+    // moshcoding.com/parking has never existed — that is the Next.js site, not
+    // the registry. Every unpointed name 404'd, which from a browser is
+    // indistinguishable from the namespace not working at all.
+    expect(js.parkingUrlFor('scrambled.eggs')).toBe('https://pit.moshcode.sh/n/scrambled.eggs');
+    expect(js.DEFAULT_PARKING_BASE).toBe('https://pit.moshcode.sh');
+  });
+
+  it('agrees with the TS source of truth', () => {
+    expect(js.parkingUrlFor('scrambled.eggs')).toBe(ts.parkingUrlFor('scrambled.eggs'));
+    expect(js.DEFAULT_PARKING_BASE).toBe(ts.DEFAULT_PARKING_BASE);
+  });
+
+  it('parks and fetches at the same route, because it is the same question', () => {
+    // /n/ serves a pointed name and shows the directory for an unpointed one.
+    expect(js.parkingUrlFor('a.eggs')).toBe(js.gatewayUrlFor('a.eggs'));
+  });
+
+  it('still honours a self-hosted parking base', () => {
+    expect(js.parkingUrlFor('a.eggs', 'https://my.pit/')).toBe('https://my.pit/n/a.eggs');
+  });
+
+  it('escapes the name rather than pasting it into a URL', () => {
+    expect(js.parkingUrlFor('a b.eggs')).toBe('https://pit.moshcode.sh/n/a%20b.eggs');
+  });
+});
diff --git a/apps/desktop/src/moshpit-resolve.test.ts b/apps/desktop/src/moshpit-resolve.test.ts
index 51365f5..8177e96 100644
--- a/apps/desktop/src/moshpit-resolve.test.ts
+++ b/apps/desktop/src/moshpit-resolve.test.ts
@@ -261,7 +261,7 @@ describe('decideResolution — parking unpointed names', () => {
       moshpit: unregistered,
     });
     expect(d.use).toBe('park');
-    expect(d.url).toBe('https://moshcoding.com/parking?name=california.oranges');
+    expect(d.url).toBe('https://pit.moshcode.sh/n/california.oranges');
   });
 
   it('parks a claimed name that is not pointed at an address yet', () => {
@@ -304,6 +304,6 @@ describe('decideResolution — parking unpointed names', () => {
       moshpit: unregistered,
       parkingBase: 'https://my.park/',
     });
-    expect(d.url).toBe('https://my.park/parking?name=california.oranges');
+    expect(d.url).toBe('https://my.park/n/california.oranges');
   });
 });
diff --git a/apps/desktop/src/moshpit-resolve.ts b/apps/desktop/src/moshpit-resolve.ts
index 6768994..9041097 100644
--- a/apps/desktop/src/moshpit-resolve.ts
+++ b/apps/desktop/src/moshpit-resolve.ts
@@ -66,14 +66,14 @@ export const CONSOLE_LABEL = 'mosh';
  * at an IP, and "this name is unclaimed / unpointed, here's how to take it" is
  * a far more useful answer than ERR_NAME_NOT_RESOLVED.
  */
-export const DEFAULT_PARKING_BASE = 'https://moshcoding.com';
+export const DEFAULT_PARKING_BASE = 'https://pit.moshcode.sh';
 
 /** The parking page for a name with no destination yet. */
 export function parkingUrlFor(
   name: string,
   parkingBase: string = DEFAULT_PARKING_BASE,
 ): string {
-  return `${parkingBase.replace(/\/+$/, '')}/parking?name=${encodeURIComponent(name)}`;
+  return `${parkingBase.replace(/\/+$/, '')}/n/${encodeURIComponent(name)}`;
 }
 
 export interface MoshpitLookup {