Domains parked with Google

Are they part of the search or content network?

[Sea_Colon]

I was trying to use the adwords site exclusion feature to prevent my ads from displaying on domains that *I think* are parked with google.
I'm specifically focused on referral urls with oingo dot com in them.
Site exclusions for this domian have not stopped ad clicks from this domain, which is making me think that they're really part of the search network, not the content network. Does anyone know for sure? If so, I'd have to opt out of the search network since you still can't exclude sites from the search network?
The bottom line is that clicks coming from these parked domains are the least targeted I've seen from adwords and are costing me $ with zero ROI. I want to make them stop!
Thanks

[narrowboater]

Sea_Colon, I'm pretty sure those 'parked domains' come under Google's heading of Search partners rather than Content partners. Which is odd. When I used to go and look at those 'search' sites which were displaying my AdWords ads, I certainly wouldn't categorise them as such - they looked like rather skimpy content sites to me. I've found that the only way to avoid dubious clicks was to turn off both Content and Search options in AdWords. I'm now only displaying ads on Google itself, as this seems to be the most fail-safe option.

FWIW I don't think parked domains should be regarded by Google as search partners. Content maybe. Search, definitely not.

[JKelly]

Last time I used the search network, I found lots of traffic from domain parking pages also and thus had to end up opting out of their search network. I wish they offered a way to specify what sites on the search network one wanted their ads on.

[beren]

Yes, the search network, and if you read threads around WebmasterWorld you'll find plenty of complaints about parked domains.

I wish they offered a way to specify what sites on the search network one wanted their ads on.

You and me and thousands of other advertisers.