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Re: Detecting parked domains

  • From: Duane Wessels
  • Date: Thu Aug 03 04:07:16 2006 

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.