From: David Ulevitch (no email)
Date: Thu Aug 03 2006 - 10:54:07 EDT
On Aug 2, 2006, at 2:03 PM, Sean Donelan wrote:
> There seems to be DNSBL's for every other thing, I was expecting to
> find
> one for parked domain names or the server IP addresses used.
That's not hard. It's the value of providing it I question. It only
encourages them to start putting syndicated content on them and then
it starts to get more confusing as to what is BS and what is real,
which wastes even more time.
> For less legitimate domain parking (i.e. typo-squatters), its a
> different
> problem.
Totally agreed, and one probably worth providing a solution to.
Sites like www.stationary.com bother me a lot less than
www.craigslists.org
And http://www.myspaces.com ... Well, maybe that's no more disturbing
than myspace. j/k
CNET held onto tv.com for a long long time before making it a site.
They're still parking radio.com. So some parked domains eventually
get built out.
So while it'd be easy to have a list of parked domains encouraging
blocking content-less sites[1] will just teach domain parkers how to
use XML-RPC calls to syndicate content from flickr and other web2.0
sites for google fodder, etc. I'm not sure if that's yet another
arms race worth starting. Vixie's comments a few days back resonate
pretty strongly in my mind. Botnets, spammers and other miscreants
already waste enough of my time.
Typo-squatting is a different beast indeed, one which annoys people
endlessly.
-davidu
1: I know Sean didn't specifically say he wanted to block sites, I'm
just picking the obvious use of such a feed, especially if it were
made public.
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