AdguardTeam
Add a site redirection check
Сheck to find live domains which redirect somewhere.
The most popular cases:
- a site just moved to a new domain
- a site is dead, but new domain owner uses it for another purposes (99% parked and uses redirection to a selling page, or used for ads/scum.
Currently, domains that are used in such scenarios are skipped.
In the second case URLs contain query params (usually ad related).
These domains can be logged to a file by pairs domain + tab + redirection_url or replaced in the filter by ! commented out by dead-domains-linter: domain + redirection_url
Perhaps if an address doesn't open with HTTPS, it can be considered dead.
Examples:
bukaivip.com- first-party redirect
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sa8zdui.com- third-party redirect
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www.mp4er.cc- legal redirect
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Redirect does not look like a good indication of the domain being dead.
It means the domain is very well alive and since there's traffic on that domain, it can be repurposed back very quickly.
If a site is moved, the rule is not used. For us, it is almost equal to a dead domain. But the list of logged domains can be reviewed.