[91503] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Detecting parked domains
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jeremy Chadwick)
Wed Aug 2 16:05:17 2006
Date: Wed, 2 Aug 2006 13:04:48 -0700
From: Jeremy Chadwick <nanog@jdc.parodius.com>
To: nanog@merit.edu
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On Wed, Aug 02, 2006 at 09:10:31PM +0200, Florian Weimer wrote:
> > 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.
It seemed quite obvious to me: he's talking about domain squatting.
"Parking" is just a euphemism.
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