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Exactly. Afaik, there's even a whole auction based side industry trading expired domains. When you see a placeholder page, the original site is for all intents
by MonkeyMalarky 4y ago
Exactly. Afaik, there's even a whole auction based side industry trading expired domains. When you see a placeholder page, the original site is for all intents and purposes, dead. The domain just happens to be interesting enough that someone wants to stick an ad on it rather than let it resolve to nothing.
- denton-scratch 4y agoYabbut a placeholder page returns status 200. We're discussing URLs that don't return any status at all; they are unresponsive. They have no placeholder; they aren't a "place". A site that is occupied by a placeholder page is a 200, as far as that "top million" database is concerned. It might as well be a working shopfront or blog.