[91519] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Detecting parked domains
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sean Donelan)
Wed Aug 2 21:04:02 2006
Date: Wed, 2 Aug 2006 21:00:20 -0400 (EDT)
From: Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <79D84FDB-42A5-4128-90CD-5567CDC0C6D1@ianai.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
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.
