Blocking SEs from your Parked Domain

[Paddy]

Help please...

We've recently acquired a premium domain and want to park it but don't want to get the domain/landing page indexed by SEs- is this possible?

Someone mentioned about using the "robots.txt" to block the Search Engines- is this for websites or can it be done for parked domains too..

Thanks for all f/back.

 

[netzilla]

While I am familiar with the robots.txt file I dont believe that you can access that for a parked domain. Is this a new domain that has never been indexed or the other way around?

 

[cache]

why do you want to block it?

 

[Paddy]

While I am familiar with the robots.txt file I dont believe that you can access that for a parked domain. Is this a new domain that has never been indexed or the other way around?

Its a domain reg'd back in the 90'sand never been parked. It does have about 1000+ pages indexed by G when the old owner forwarded it to another of his sites for a couple of weeks.

why do you want to block it?

I read somewhere before that 'good/premium' domains should never be parked, and since this domain costs a bundle, im trying to be thorough in seeing whether this statement is true.

- After a few days research, nothing seems conclusive. I notice that some top premiums do not resolve to any page. At the same time, there are others from (Name Admin etc) that are purely monetized from parking/ppc template type sites. Result: no conclusion.

- Then i read a piece on Chris Chenna that mentions how the SEs are blocked and that only the typeins are monetized so that there is NO chance that the Google can ever ban the domain before its developed or resold... Now, this kinda made sense because if you have a million dollar domain (for example), if it got banned by Google, surely this would affect its value big time?

This naturally leads to the questions- has Google ever banned a domain due to it being parked. Also, if a name is banned from G, how difficult is it to get it un-banned.

Should these 2 concerns be ironed out, there may be no reason to try blocking the SEs. But if its still inconclusive about how G bans sites/domains, then its probably better to play it safe, especially when we've just shelved out an arm n a leg

 

[Paddy]

has Google ever banned a domain due to it being parked. Also, if a name is banned from G, how difficult is it to get it un-banned.

Anyone?

 

[edit]

You can block parked pages from being indexed by search engines, however instead of say parking them on the parking companies nameservers (i.e. ns1.sedo.com) you would have to have them on your own hosting so that you can configure you robots.txt file or .htaccess whichever one does it and then have your index file forward to a parked page as well as 404 pages forward to the parked page. Takes a little more work but gets the desired result.

Also none indexing for a high profile domain may be better since archive.org will "cache" your parked page and put it up for all to see if anyone tries to research what the domain name was used for in the past. Which seems to be what you would like to avoid.

-edit