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Re:How Ninite.com (YC W08) was named by a program -- code in... by gstar on Friday May 21, 2010 @08:38PM (#1369439)
I'm showing my age, but it used to be uncool to hammer the WHOIS servers. It might pay to use a bit of socket.gethostbyname() to exclude the domain before you hit whois for the final verdict.

Really cool idea, though - impressed with the approach.

OBTW: On your name, in the US does ninite mean "night, night!" or "goodnight" as it does in the UK?

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Re:How Ninite.com (YC W08) was named by a program -- code in... by gstar on Friday May 21, 2010 @08:52PM (#1369470)
Here's a version that does a socket.gethostbyname before it hits the whois server:

http://d14hvpftrmzdxx.cloudfront.net/namer-ns.py

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Re:How Ninite.com (YC W08) was named by a program -- code in... by techiferous on Friday May 21, 2010 @09:06PM (#1369488)
Yes, here in the US it means that, too. "night, night" was the first thing I thought of.
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