[GTALUG] TLDs

[Evan Leibovitch]

I use a quick search tool at my registrar, rebel.com.

For any given string of characters, it will instantly check its
availability in many, many TLDs - generic ones and country ones being sold
as generics - and provide availability and pricing.
(including when a TLD marks a string as "premium" so the registry can earn
the speculation bonus instead of a reseller)

It just checks whether the domains are taken, not whether or how they're in
use. I know it's not CLI; you may get better results using `dig` than
`ping` or `whois` if going that route.

- Evan


On Thu, Jul 25, 2024 at 4:05 PM David Mason via talk <talk at gtalug.org>
wrote:

> 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
>
>
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