domain-availability | A simple UI to check the availability of domains | REST library

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domain-availability is a JavaScript library typically used in Web Services, REST applications. domain-availability has no bugs, it has no vulnerabilities, it has a Strong Copyleft License and it has low support. You can download it from GitHub.

A simple UI to check the availability of domains with Namecheap's API

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domain-availability has a low active ecosystem.

It has 31 star(s) with 7 fork(s). There are 1 watchers for this library.

It had no major release in the last 6 months.

There are 7 open issues and 3 have been closed. There are 6 open pull requests and 0 closed requests.

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domain-availability is licensed under the GPL-3.0 License. This license is Strong Copyleft.

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domain-availability releases are not available. You will need to build from source code and install.

domain-availability saves you 30 person hours of effort in developing the same functionality from scratch.

It has 81 lines of code, 0 functions and 16 files.

It has low code complexity. Code complexity directly impacts maintainability of the code.

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Checks for domain names
Initialize the batch with the requested domains
Updates the existing TLDs with the given config .
Gets the client IP address .
Update the stats
Resets classes
Computes the average
Update the batch status

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How to reliably check if a domain has been registered or is available?

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How to reliably check if a domain has been registered or is available?

Asked 2018-Jan-04 at 15:38

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I need a reliable way to check in Python if a domain of any TLD has been registered or is available. The bold phrases are the key points that I'm struggling with.

What I tried?

WHOIS is the obvious way to do the check and an existing Python library like the popular python-whois was my first try. The problem is that it doesn't seem to be able to retrieve information for some of the TLDs, e.g. .run, while it works mostly fine for older ones, e.g. .com.
So if python-whois is not reliable, maybe just a wrapper for the Linux's whois would be better. I tried whois library and unfortunately it supports only a limited set of TLDs, apparently to make sure it can always parse the results.
As I don't really need to parse the results, I ripped the code out of the whois library and tried to do the query by calling Linux's whois myself:
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Answered 2018-Jan-04 at 15:38

If you do not have specific access (like being a registrar), and if you do not target a specific TLD (as some TLDs do have a specific public service called domain availability), the only tool that makes sense is to query whois servers.

You have then at least the following two problems:

use the appropriate whois server based on the given domain name
taking into account that whois servers are rate-limited so if you are bulk querying them without care you will first hit delays and then even risk your IP to be blacklisted, for some time.

For the second point the usual methods apply (handling delays on your side, using multiple endpoints, etc.)

For the first point, in another of my reply here: https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/407030/211833 you could find some explanations of what you observe depending on the wrapper around whois you use and some counter measures. See also my other reply here: https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/a/111639/75842 and specifically point 2.

Note that depending on your specific requirements and if you are able to at least change part of them, you may have other solutions. For example, for gTLDs, if you tolerate 24 hours delay, you may use the published zonefiles of registries to find domain names registered (those published so not all of them).

Also, why you are right in a generic sense that using a third party has its weaknesses, if you find a worthy registrar that both has access to many registries and that provides you with an API, you could then use it for your needs.

In short, I do not believe you can achieve this task with all cases (100% reliability, 100% TLDs, etc.). You will need some compromises but they depend on your initial needs.

Also very important: do not shell out to run a whois command, this will create many security and performance problems. Use the appropriate libraries from your programming language to do whois queries or just open a TCP socket on port 43 and send your queries on one line terminated by CR+LF, reading back a blob of text, this is basically only what is defined in RFC3912.

Source https://stackoverflow.com/questions/48063176

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