[GTALUG] TLDs

[David Mason]

grep 'ca$' /usr/share/dict/words|tr '[A-Z]' '[a-z]'|sort -u|sed
's/ca$/.ca/'|while read x;do ping -c1 $x >/dev/null 2>&1 || echo $x;done

but ping isn't very good at seeing if something is registered... and
`whois` doesn't seem to have an error code.

Any suggestions on a CLI way to check if a domain is registered?

../Dave

On Thu, 25 Jul 2024 at 10:59, Giles Orr via talk <talk at gtalug.org> wrote:

> I was deeply disappointed that I couldn't buy "cloa.ca".  Whoever did
> buy it isn't even using that disgusting name yet.  Not that I had any
> particular use in mind myself ...  It's very hard to come up with
> words that end in "ca."
>
> Wow - no, it's not all that bad:
>
>      `grep 'ca$' /usr/share/dict/words`
>
> Turns up 61 results, and who wouldn't want to register sciati.ca or
> eroti.ca (note that I haven't checked if these are registered).
> mec.ca _is_ registered - to Mountain Equipment Co-op, a company many
> of you are probably familiar with.  Sadly (but unsurprisingly), both
> antarcti.ca and repli.ca aren't available.
>
> On Thu, 25 Jul 2024 at 09:44, Scott Allen <mlxxxp at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Thu, 25 Jul 2024 at 08:45, Giles Orr via talk <talk at gtalug.org>
> wrote:
> > > What's the strangest one you've actually seen in use?
> >
> > Not strange or a weird TLD but I always notice the sites that use the
> > TLD as the last letters of words they want to spell, instead of the
> > intended purpose of the TLD, for example https://www.YouTu.be
>
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