Show HN: My weekend project, A domain name hack and semi-mass domain search

by thedevelopment • 16 years ago

3 7 16 years ago

Hey HN, I was always sick of trying to find available domain names for other side projects, so I came up with this. It'll check availability of .com, .net and .org, as well as any domain name hacks available (gimpish -> gimpi.sh). It's Sinatra and EventMachine driven.<p>Enter a few words in the name field to try it out! e.g. apple, microsoft, reddit, purplemonkeydishwasher<p>Feedback muchly appreciated!

thedevelopment3• 16 years ago

Hey HN,

I was always sick of trying to find available domain names for other side projects, so I came up with this. It'll check availability of .com, .net and .org, as well as any domain name hacks available (gimpish -> gimpi.sh). It's Sinatra and EventMachine driven.

Enter a few words in the name field to try it out! e.g. apple, microsoft, ycombinator, purplemonkeydishwasher

Feedback muchly appreciated!

dam5s• 16 years ago

That is just... super fast, impressive !

westondeboer• 16 years ago

http://domai.nr/

thedevelopment3• 16 years ago

That's pretty cool, but slightly different. It's certainly a much more polished product =)

Where that's showing you a combination of words, my site instead looks up every word and checks it's availability.

I created my site to help with the brainstorming of site names to see what's available, but I can see how domai.nr would be used in a very similar way.

DevX1012• 16 years ago

It's giving me wrong information for .org domains

On my first search, it shows chat.org and wizard.org as being available. Not so.

DevX1012• 16 years ago

Hmm..just tried it again and now it shows them correctly as being as unavailable. Not sure what happened first time around.

thedevelopment3• 16 years ago

It's using Ruby Whois (http://www.ruby-whois.org/) to do the queries, and it looks like the .org implementation is a bit flakey.

Thanks for the heads up and thanks for the feedback! I'll see if I can fix the issue.

Show HN: My weekend project, A domain name hack and semi-mass domain search

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