Daddy

Command line tool for bulk checking availability of domain names at godaddy.com. Given a TXT file with one domain name per line, the script outputs into another TXT file a list of those domains that are available for purchase as well as their price. Domain names that are not valid domain names (e.g. words that end with a dash) are skipped. daddy is useful for instance to avoid the frustration with spending a long time on figuring out a good name for a startup, only to find that no reasonable domain for this startup is available.

The tool has only been tested on Linux, but should work on Windows and Mac as well.

Installation and removal

The tool can be installed manually using pip by downloading/cloning the repo and by running

pip install --user .

inside the directory. The directory can be removed after the installation is complete.

Alternatively, if git is installed on the system, daddy can also be installed by running

pip install --user git+https://github.com/martinstefanik/daddy

In order to remove daddy, simply run

pip uninstall daddy

Usage

Since daddy builds on the godaddy.com API, it requires the user to create an account as well as an API endpoint. The API endpoint can be created here. Make sure to create a production endpoint. The OTE endpoint is used for testing purposes only and the domain name databases are not kept up to date.

Details about the usage of the tool can be obtained by running daddy --help.

Rather than supplying the API key and API secret to daddy every time it is run, a better option is to store these in daddy's config file. The location of this file depends on the operating system:

OS	Config file location
Unix	`~/.config/daddy/config`
macOS	`~/Library/Application Support/daddy/config`
Windows	`C:\Users\<user>\AppData\Roaming\daddy\config`

The config file has to be formatted as s JSON file. The API key and API secret are store in the key and secret keys, respectively.