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Old March 3rd, 2004, 02:59 PM
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domain name search tool
Apologies if this question has been answered a number of times...

I have someone who wants to add domain name search capabilities to his site (similar to NetSol or register.com)..but not domain registration, just search.

I looked on ICANN and InterNic and did a google search but not finding any info or tools.

Any ideas are very much appreciated.

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Old March 3rd, 2004, 04:42 PM
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What I did was write a whois client in C then I wrote perl scripts which executed the C client to make lookups. Then I have profiles for each TLD so that it queries the appropriate whois server with the proper command. Then it does a regular expression search of the returned text to determine if the domain is available.

If you know somebody who is interested in writing a similar script here's my whois server list which took me quite a while to compile:

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of course I'd be glad to write him a similar script for a fee.
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