Show HN: My weekend project, A domain name hack and semi-mass domain search

[thedevelopment]

Hey HN, I was always sick of trying to find available domain names for other side projects, so I came up with this. It'll check availability of .com, .net and .org, as well as any domain name hacks available (gimpish -> gimpi.sh). It's Sinatra and EventMachine driven.<p>Enter a few words in the name field to try it out! e.g. apple, microsoft, reddit, purplemonkeydishwasher<p>Feedback muchly appreciated!

[thedevelopment]

Hey HN,

I was always sick of trying to find available domain names for other side projects, so I came up with this. It'll check availability of .com, .net and .org, as well as any domain name hacks available (gimpish -> gimpi.sh). It's Sinatra and EventMachine driven.

Enter a few words in the name field to try it out! e.g. apple, microsoft, ycombinator, purplemonkeydishwasher

Feedback muchly appreciated!

[DevX101]

It's giving me wrong information for .org domains

On my first search, it shows chat.org and wizard.org as being available. Not so.

[DevX101]

Hmm..just tried it again and now it shows them correctly as being as unavailable. Not sure what happened first time around.

[thedevelopment]

It's using Ruby Whois (http://www.ruby-whois.org/) to do the queries, and it looks like the .org implementation is a bit flakey.

Thanks for the heads up and thanks for the feedback! I'll see if I can fix the issue.

[westondeboer]

http://domai.nr/

[thedevelopment]

That's pretty cool, but slightly different. It's certainly a much more polished product =)

Where that's showing you a combination of words, my site instead looks up every word and checks it's availability.

I created my site to help with the brainstorming of site names to see what's available, but I can see how domai.nr would be used in a very similar way.

[dam5s]

That is just... super fast, impressive !