WHOIS or Domain Availability Data Lookup?

[TheMcD 6]

I want to do a bot that looks to see if a domain is available for registering.

 

The one way I have thought of doing it is to find a bunch of web based lookup sites and rotating between them, checking to see if a domain is registered or not. (I really only need availability data, but most sites don't offer that.)

 

Is there another way you guys can think of?

 

If there was a web based service with an inexpensive fee, I'd be for that.

 

Any suggestions/thoughts?

 

Thanks,

Troy

[JohnB 255]

Were you thinking of something like this?

 

reset account("Any")

navigate("http://www.namecheap.com/", "Wait")

type text(<name="ctl00$ctl00$ctl00$ctl00$base_content$web_base_content$home_content$domainSearchBoxOnHome$domainName">, "{$account data("City")}{$account data("Zip Code")}", "Standard")

click(<name="ctl00$ctl00$ctl00$ctl00$base_content$web_base_content$home_content$domainSearchBoxOnHome$ncbutton$actionObjectPlaceHolder">, "Left Click", "No")

wait(5)

if($exists(<innertext="is available">)) {

then {

alert("Congratulations! Your domain,{$account data("City")} {$account data("Zip Code")}.com is available")

}

else {

alert("We\'re sorry, Your domain is not currently available. Please try another.")

}

}

 

John

[TheMcD 6]

Yeah John, like that.

 

I was just thinking of looping through various sites that offer the domain look-up in order to not go over each sites' use limit.

 

I am also open for other thoughts, options.

 

Again, thanks John, that is once again, awesomeness.