Detecting parked domains

Rick Wesson wessorh at ar.com
Wed Aug 2 20:20:43 UTC 2006



Parked:
   A domain hosted by a middle-man for the sole purpose of generating
   revenue from pay-per-click advertising. Characterized by having no
   content of value.

This definition *might* work for NANOG, but my parking friends would 
disagree with the above.


Florian Weimer wrote:
> * Sean Donelan:
> 
>> Has anyone come up with a quick method for detecting if a domain
>> name is parked, but is not being used except displaying ads?
> 
> AFAICT, the main challenge is to define what "parked" means in the
> context of your application.




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