[91523] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Detecting parked domains
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jim Popovitch)
Wed Aug 2 22:19:03 2006
Date: Wed, 02 Aug 2006 22:17:27 -0400
From: Jim Popovitch <jimpop@yahoo.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.58.0608022035260.502@clifden.donelan.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
Sean Donelan wrote:
> 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.
Don't parked domains exist on a registrar owned IP? I would think a
list could be built from spending some time contacting each registrar
(http://www.icann.org/registrars/accredited-list.html). ;-)
Or if you didn't mind over-compensating, you could at least assume that
"Various Registrars" listed here:
http://www.iana.org/assignments/ipv4-address-space will probably contain
the registrar's public sites as well as hosted domains. Just my $.02
-Jim P.
