Re: Detecting parked domains

[Florian Weimer <fw () deneb enyo de>]

* 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.