Re:Ask HN: Please, review wordoid.com, a smart naming webapp
by sho on Friday May 22, 2009 @09:28AM
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Yeah, i saw "carlover.com" in green and thought "you've got to be kidding, i'd buy that in a heartbeat" (I love cars).
Unfortunately, it was kidding.
Re:Ask HN: Please, review wordoid.com, a smart naming webapp
by op on Saturday May 23, 2009 @12:16PM
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Wordoid.com checks domain availability by querying a DNS server. This is not completely accurate, since some domains don't have DNS records. The right way is to query a whois server. That's tough, because i don't know of any whois servers that would allow me send bulk queries.
Re:Ask HN: Please, review wordoid.com, a smart naming webapp
by sho on Saturday May 23, 2009 @02:15PM
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Could do it yourself - https://www.arin.net/resources/request/bulkwhois.html
Seems to be very quick as well which is great. Would be cool if it would check .com .net and .org variants as I wouldn't settle on a name unless all three were available (+ .co.uk as I'm in the UK!).
On another note, while I was playing with it, the name 'effection' came up and effection.com was showing as available. I went to my preferred registrar to buy* and it's actually registered. effection.com was originally registered back in 1999! So you may need to check out your domain look up code.
*no offence to you, but I work for a registrar by day and get staff rates!