[91525] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Detecting parked domains
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Duane Wessels)
Thu Aug 3 04:06:32 2006
Date: Thu, 3 Aug 2006 02:05:55 -0600 (MDT)
From: Duane Wessels <wessels@packet-pushers.com>
To: Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.58.0608022035260.502@clifden.donelan.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
> 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.
You might be able to use lack of an SOA record as a hint. In my
experience, parked domains often do not have SOA records because
the parking companies are lazy. It is a lot easier to put all the
parked domains in a parent zone file, or even use a wildcard, rather
than have a zone file for each parked name.
Duane W.
