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Re: Detecting parked domains

  • From: Jeremy Chadwick
  • Date: Wed Aug 02 16:05:55 2006

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.
"Parking" is just a euphemism.

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