[91648] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Detecting parked domains
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Florian Weimer)
Wed Aug 9 15:14:00 2006
From: Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>
To: nanog@merit.edu
Date: Wed, 09 Aug 2006 21:12:48 +0200
In-Reply-To: <20060802200448.GA44921@icarus.home.lan> (Jeremy Chadwick's
message of "Wed, 2 Aug 2006 13:04:48 -0700")
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
* Jeremy Chadwick:
> 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.
I've heard suggestions to treat "parked" domains less threatening than
other types of domain squatting. This approach is somewhat dubious,
based on a few things we've seen.
