How to know if a page is blank or parked domain in ruby?

Question

I am trying to find out the httpstatus of a bunch of urls via ruby Net::Http, but the problem is even the blank pages as well as the parked domains return a status of 200 OK. Is there anyway I can weed out these type of urls?

Answer 1

To clarify few points:

1. HTTP Status will not help to identify if a domain is or not parked. They exist to tell if everything went ok or not.
2. To track down parked domains, you will need to develop your own approach as a park domain page is just an HTML page...

Few things you can try:

• Look for css, js or even text in the page with the "park domain" mention. Some keywords you may want to look for: domain available / parked / renewable / etc.
• test couple of different prefixes for a given domain (domain.com, asds.domain.com, fgffg.domain.com). If they redirect to the same page, it's likely to be a parked domain
• Identify the structure of parked domain pages for the main registrars. All site having a landing page matching this structure will be parked domains
• Build a list of DNS used for parked domains. If the domain is managed by one of the DNS in your list, then it is parked.
• Use a list of parked domain providers (see for some examples, some links may be broken)

sources:

Method to detect a parked page?

Some key phrased for parked domains by Gary Sieling