Detecting parked domains
Sean Donelan
sean at donelan.com
Thu Aug 3 01:00:20 UTC 2006
On Wed, 2 Aug 2006, Patrick W. Gilmore wrote:
> I have over 100 domains on my personal web server. _NONE_ of them
> are parked, although not all have web pages (and of the ones that do,
> none have ads).
I tried not to attribute malice on the part of domain parking operators.
I am looking for a way that you, or anyone else, could indicate a domain
should not be considered "in service" although the name is registered and
has an A record pointing to an active server so when I check that name
it doesn't require a human to interpret the results.
Most of the legit domain parking operators make it pretty obvious to
a human looking at the web page its not an active domain name , e.g. The
Future Home Of XYZ, Buy This Domain Now, etc. Unfortunately what may
be obvious to a human is sometimes difficult for a dumb computer. I
just want a way to make it equally obvious to a computer. As Randy points
out, there is more to the Net than the Web, so the better solution should
not depend on sending a query to port 80.
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