Detecting parked domains

Tue Aug 1 20:24:34 UTC 2006

Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 01, 2006 at 03:35:40PM -0400,
>  Sean Donelan <sean at donelan.com> wrote 
>  a message of 6 lines which said:
> 
> 
>>Has anyone come up with a quick method for detecting if a domain
>>name is parked, but is not being used except displaying ads?
> 
> 
> I don't think it is possible: "being parked" cannot be defined in an
> algorithmic way. My own domain sources.org does not even have a Web
> site (and I swear it is not parked).
> 
> Let's try:
> 
> * Bayesian filtering on the content of the Web page, after suitable
>   training?
> 
> * Number of different pages on the site (if n == 1 then the domain is
>   parked)?
> 
> * (Based on the analysis of many sites, not just one) Content of the
>   page "almost" identical to the content of many other pages? (Caveat:
>   the Apache default installation page...)

Dont forget there are mail only domains. I used to have one. Now it is
used to forward html somehow to my real homepage.

; <<>> DiG 9.1.3 <<>> -t any peter-dambier.de @212.227.123.12
;; global options:  printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 28472
;; flags: qr aa rd; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 6, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;peter-dambier.de.              IN      ANY

;; ANSWER SECTION:
peter-dambier.de.       86400   IN      SOA     ns15.schlund.de. hostmaster.schlund.de. 2005050401 28800 7200 604800 86400
peter-dambier.de.       86400   IN      NS      ns15.schlund.de.
peter-dambier.de.       86400   IN      NS      ns16.schlund.de.
peter-dambier.de.       86400   IN      MX      10 mx0.gmx.de.
peter-dambier.de.       86400   IN      MX      10 mx0.gmx.net.
peter-dambier.de.       10800   IN      A       82.165.62.90

;; Query time: 63 msec
;; SERVER: 212.227.123.12#53(212.227.123.12)
;; WHEN: Tue Aug  1 22:18:51 2006
;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 217

<HT ML><HE AD>
<TI TLE>Peter und Karin Dambier</TI TLE>

</HE AD>
<FR AMESET ROWS="100%,*" BORDER="0" FR AMEBORDER="0">
<FR AME SRC="http://www.peter-dambier.gmxhome.de/" SCROLLING="AUTO" NAME="bannerframe" NORESIZE>
</FR AMESET>
<NOF RAMES>
Peter und Karin Dambier
<P>
<DI V AL IGN="CENTER"><A HR EF="http://www.peter-dambier.gmxhome.de/">http://peter-dambier.de/</A></D IV>
</NOF RAMES>
</HT ML>

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