[thelist] Domain Name Search API

Fred Jones fredthejonester at gmail.com
Thu Nov 27 13:53:09 CST 2008


> I don't know about an API, but netcraft have a DNS search facility that
> does something similar:

Thank you.

> I did this a while back with a perl script or two. But the
> problem was most of the registrars blocked after 30 or so
> requests. I had to put in a timer that would sleep for a 5
> minutes after 30 requests.  Also, I was only searching for 4
> character domains, which would be a small fraction compared
> to how many your going to have to search.

Very good point. I will try to do this initially so I won't get blocked. :)

Thank you!



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