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Re:Tell HN: Never search for domains on Godaddy.com by suifbwish on Thursday September 17, 2020 @06:41PM (#24510843)
The best way to do this securely is to do a whois lookup on the domain via command line to see if it has a registered date or not. Only way to steal ideas then is if someone works for the icann lookup db
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Re:Tell HN: Never search for domains on Godaddy.com by ted0 on Thursday September 17, 2020 @09:58PM (#24512187)
Command line is a great way to query whois. It actually doesn't even ever hit ICANN. The request goes straight to the whois server.
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