Detecting parked domains

Thu Aug 3 14:54:07 UTC 2006

On Aug 2, 2006, at 2:03 PM, Sean Donelan wrote:

> There seems to be DNSBL's for every other thing, I was expecting to  
> find
> one for parked domain names or the server IP addresses used.

That's not hard.  It's the value of providing it I question.  It only  
encourages them to start putting syndicated content on them and then  
it starts to get more confusing as to what is BS and what is real,  
which wastes even more time.

> For less legitimate domain parking (i.e. typo-squatters), its a  
> different
> problem.

Totally agreed, and one probably worth providing a solution to.

Sites like www.stationary.com bother me a lot less than  
www.craigslists.org
And http://www.myspaces.com ... Well, maybe that's no more disturbing  
than myspace. j/k

CNET held onto tv.com for a long long time before making it a site.   
They're still parking radio.com.  So some parked domains eventually  
get built out.

So while it'd be easy to have a list of parked domains encouraging  
blocking content-less sites[1] will just teach domain parkers how to  
use XML-RPC calls to syndicate content from flickr and other web2.0  
sites for google fodder, etc.  I'm not sure if that's yet another  
arms race worth starting.  Vixie's comments a few days back resonate  
pretty strongly in my mind.  Botnets, spammers and other miscreants  
already waste enough of my time.

Typo-squatting is a different beast indeed, one which annoys people  
endlessly.

-davidu

1: I know Sean didn't specifically say he wanted to block sites, I'm  
just picking the obvious use of such a feed, especially if it were  
made public.