Parked Domains

Parked domains are another nuisance when browsing the internet. Instead of the promised page, you get a for sale sign. Often with a ridiculous pricing.

Some of the parked domain are easy to detect. They redirect to a domain starting with something like www3. Or redirect to a parking service like sedo.com

Others are more tricky, they show the normal domain name, like with dan.com. In the case of dan.com the parked domain can be distinguished looking at a specific response header.

Current detections:

• Redirect to a final URL with pattern: https?://www?[0-9]
• Redirect to a final URL with sedo.com
• final URL with buy-domain (dan.com)
• Response header with references to dan.com

The links are not explicitly marked with a (pseudo) response code, but the checkers have convenient filters to list possible candidates.

The Joomla checker has a 'Parked domains' filter on the View & Fix Link page. For the wordpress checker, you can find possible parked links under the 'Parking' tab.

The queries to find parked websites are quite expensive, therefor the total number of matching links is not shown.

Please report any more parked pages, to extend the filter list.