Detecting parked domains

Wed Aug 2 21:09:39 UTC 2006

The trouble I see with this, is that legitimate web hosts commonly run 
several domains off one server, distinguishing by host headers.
So assuming that because 10 domains point at the same IP they must be 
parked, is a bad assumption.

william(at)elan.net wrote:
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> On Wed, 2 Aug 2006, Rick Wesson wrote:
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>> 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.
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> this needs to be "no original content of value"
>
> BTW - for those who are still wondering about the question of detecting
> this in semi-automated way, I recommend looking at what nameservers 
> are used as way to determine if it is likely to be parked domain. Not 
> perfect but you'll find large number of such domains and if that does 
> not do it
> then looking at common ip addresses of where the domain (www) is pointed
> to will help determining this even more.
>