domain name lookup / search script

pavsid · 28th August 2008

Hi folks,

Does anyone have any experience using, and therefore recommend, a decent fast domain lookup script that will search mutiple domains at a time, including co.uk? Preferably using ajax for even faster and 'cooler' results (most of the ones i've seen don't search co.uk).

Thanks in advance!

tema · 29th August 2008

If you are a Nominet member, I believe that you can use their EPP service to do automated domain searches for UK domains.

dch · 29th August 2008

Hi,

I'd be surprised the ones you have looked at couldn't easily be reconfigured to include .uk lookups.

I've written a couple of AJAX domain lookup scripts (different ones on both of the links in my sig) although neither are currently for sale.

Maybe worth asking if the ones you've seen and liked can be changed to include the extensions you want?

Cheers,
Sean

pavsid · 29th August 2008

That's some nifty work there Sean, just about exactly what i'm looking for...you say it's not for sale....is it for free?!

Not jumped into AJAX yet, is it pretty easy to pick up? I know some Javascript

How does a script like this search for domains? Or more specifically, how would you imagine you add domains to one of the scripts i've found? You say it's probably quite easy.

dch · 29th August 2008

Hi,

It's not for sale or for free only because I have not packaged it up to be easily installable for others, and this is only because it also uses SQL Server for caching registered details for 24 hours to save hitting the whois servers unnecessarily and to improve performance.

It's also written in C# so would only be compatible with Windows Hosting (not tested with Mono) One day I will get around to writing a version in PHP.

You would need to ask the script authors how to add extra lookups to their scripts, but it should be very easy - basically they just either use the whois tool usually available by default on *nix servers or telnet to port 43 for the specific whois server, an easy cheat is to use TLD.whois-servers.net where TLD can be replaced with co.uk or com or net etc, and you are forwarded to a relevant whois server.

As for AJAX take a look at JQuery which is what is used on my examples - mootools is also worth looking at.

Cheers,
Sean

alvarez16 · 7th October 2008

Try out PCNames Domain Search

thanks