[91504] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Detecting parked domains
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Rick Wesson)
Wed Aug 2 16:20:41 2006
Date: Wed, 02 Aug 2006 13:20:43 -0700
From: Rick Wesson <wessorh@ar.com>
To: Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>
Cc: Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com>, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <87ac6nj6mw.fsf@mid.deneb.enyo.de>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
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.
