Look up available domains - the easy way

[swedguy]

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.

[Opti]

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);
   }
}
?>