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[Jeff Taylor <shdwdrgn AT sourpuss.net>]

> People create a bunch spam domain names, and it masks the real ones.
> What if there is a real website running on .parody and Jeff's search
> missed it and he deleted it?
In answer to this point... This morning I went through the entire domain 
registry for both .parody and .oss.  I looked at every single domain, 
and probably half of them had absolutely NO information entered.  The 
domain had been created, but the owner had not added any DNS entries in 
the past 1-2 years (and I haven't even looked at anything that's been 
created in the last several months).  This means that those domain names 
were not pointing at anything real or otherwise, and the owner had never 
bothered to correct that problem.  I completely deleted all of the 
domains with this situation... if you can't point it at something within 
a year's time, you obviously have no interest in pursuing the domain.

Of the domains that remained, if they had not been touched in over a 
year but contained at least a minimal effort by the owner to create 
valid data, I emailed the owners requesting a confirmation that they 
still had any interest in their domain (and to renew it through the 
registry).

Looking at the registry right now, there are 33 .parody domains 
registered.  Of those, almost all have been registered in the past 
month, and almost all names also have a matching .oss registration.  
There were several folks who went through one day and registered a whole 
bunch of domains on both .oss and .parody.  Not a single one of the 33 
registered .parody domains has any information entered.  They are 
completely blank.

Therefore, I stand by my earlier statement... there are NO functioning 
.parody domains in existence at the moment.