/whois-local

šŸ•µ Find a good available .com offline.

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šŸ•µ whois-local

Find a good .com not yet taken code. Does two things:

  1. Pair a list of words with itself and
  2. Query WHOIS offline for <pair>.com and report domain availability.

Set up

  1. Request a .com zone file per the article.

    • My given request rationale was:

    Quickly and privately query domain availability locally without flooding whois with requests.

    • It expires about 11 years after granted. It seems to be updated periodically.
    • com domains alone is about 4.8 gigabytes.

  2. Download the zone file and move it to zones/.

    • I had to copy the network request as a curl command.

  3. Fill out words.json with some candidates to mishmash.

  4. Execute make. Warning: this generates about 50 gigabytes of additional data.

  5. šŸ¤ž no one is hoarding domains just for money.

Quick WHOIS query

Example of an unavailable domain

$ sqlite3 dist/com.sqlite3 "select domain from domains where domain = 'example';"
domain 
-------
example

Example of an available domain

$ sqlite3 dist/com.sqlite3 "select domain from domains where domain = 'example99';"

License

Ā© Stephen Niedzielski.

AGPL-3.0-only

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU Affero General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU Affero General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU Affero General Public License along with this program. If not, see https://www.gnu.org/licenses/.