Checking availability of domains in bulk with API?

ShabbySquire

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Hoping to utilize registrars' APIs to check availability of domains in bulk. Can anyone recommend a decent one?

 

innozemec

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i am not aware of API to exist somewhere.. people just use bots to do whois requests and process the data

 

pavan

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I am not aware of any api but you can use networksolutions to check upto 500 domains in a go

 

ShabbySquire

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innozemec said:

i am not aware of API to exist somewhere.. people just use bots to do whois requests and process the data

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There's Namecheap api, and much more.

I've tried to use GET http to scrape the results, but you can't get the results as they're usually obfuscated. Using a bot via the browser does work, but it just plods along.

 

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bryanon

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DomainTools. It isn't free but if current whois information is all you're after then it isn't overly expensive either.

 

ShabbySquire

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DT looks good. $50 per mth is about average and you get a nice load of stats to boot.

Thanks.

 

Scripteen

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Almost every domain registrar has an api to query domain availability and even register it automatically with payment deducted from preloaded balance or a credit card attached to the account. I prefer both Dynadot.com and Internetbs.net for my domains and they both have API access for their clients.

 

Moosey

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Scripteen said:

Almost every domain registrar has an api to query domain availability and even register it automatically with payment deducted from preloaded balance or a credit card attached to the account. I prefer both Dynadot.com and Internetbs.net for my domains and they both have API access for their clients.

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Good call, thanks a lot

 

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sookie

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I use an old Windows program called "Domain Research Tool", which can lookup availability, etc, of tens of thousands of domains at once. I don't think it's been updated since 2010, but it still serves a lot of my needs. Bought it years ago at http://www.domainresearchtool.com Hope that helps..

 

mixing

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There are a few APIs out there which let you do this. I'd suggest checking out NameChex. This will do exactly what you're looking for!

 

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LeafCrAzY93

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Scrapebox does bulk domain checks.

 

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Jonaz86

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LeafCrAzY93 said:

Scrapebox does bulk domain checks.

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Scrapebox is awesome but not very reliable when it comes to checking if domain is avaliable or not. I might be using it wrong but i doubht it after reading many threads about it..