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Look up available domains - the easy way

I was just registering some domains. So I was doing "whois domain.com" way too many times to find domains that were available. Pain in the ass.

Here's a small little script that will make it easier for you.

Upload this little script to your server and name it "whois.sh"

PHP Code:


		
			
#!/bin/bash



if [ $# -lt 1 ]

then

        echo "Usage:"

        echo

        echo "`basename $0` <file>"

        exit

fi



domains=`cat $1`



for domain in $domains

do

    sleep 2

    whois $domain | grep "No match for"

done

Change the permissions on the script "chmod 755 whois.sh".

Now upload a file with all the domains you want to check, 1 domain per line.

Run the script with "./whois.sh domains.txt" - or what ever you named the file with all the domains in. Now it will spit out all the domains that are available :)

EDIT: added a 2 second pause before each whois. They seem to boot you if you whois them too fast.

here's a simple script that gets results of a networksolutions whois query.

save code in a file called whois.php and upload to your server.

usage: whois.php?domain=domain.com

PHP Code:


		
			
<?php 

if (trim($domain) <> "") {

   $domain = trim($domain);

   $fp = fsockopen("whois.networksolutions.com", 43, $errno, $errstr, 30);

   if (!$fp) {

     echo "$errstr ($errno)";

   } else {

     fputs($fp, "$domain\r\n");

     print "<pre>\r\n";

     while (!feof($fp)) {

         echo fread($fp,128);

     }

     print "</pre>";

     fclose ($fp);

   }

}

?>