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"


#!/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
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);
}
}
?>