Method to detect a parked page?

Question

Anyone know of a way to programatically detect a parked web page? That is, those pages that you accidentally type in (or intentionally sometimes) and they are hosted by a d

Answer 1

I would say that you'll have to examine the WHOIS records for the sites in question and/or the actual content of the pages and develop some heuristics as to what constitutes a "parked page".

Take goooogle.com, looking at their WHOIS record shows that they are owned by "Privacy Protection" and that their DNS servers are ns1/ns2.fastpark.net. If you look at the source for the site, they're silly enough to have a CSS file named "style_park.css" :)

All in all, I don't think you'll be able to come up with a generic way to do it. You'll probably end up with some ever evolving rule base or blacklist