A man is sitting at a small table in a tiny room the size of a closet. He is holding a dark blue color pencil. He is drawing a swastika, the Nazi symbol. The year is 1942. A few months earlier a friend had visited him showing him photos of Jewish men and women the Nazis had killed. It worked. He was in. Despite knowing all too well what would happen to him, his wife and his daughter if the Germans found out.
Until now, technology has worked as a class equalizer. Almost anyone on the planet is connected to the internet and has instant access to a universe of information. It wasn’t that long ago that not even kings or queens could access that much information that fast, not even for all the gold in the world.
If a domain shows a generic landing page like this one http://www.domainlandingpage.com/ then you know it is not being used but people are just keeping it so they can sell it to someone who actually wants to use it. I guess the question would then be: how can you detect if a domain is just being parked.