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Is this another electron app? Why? This is 100% doable in the browser and has been done before with other sites. Why do I need to spend 300MiB of ram to search for domain names? Sorry to sound negative, it's just... the electron fad is getting really old.
After a few tests it looks good but it reports some domains as registered when they are not (for instance kostikaable.com or kostikaition.io are marked registered but do not seem to exist when I manually run a Whois). Maybe the tool is running onto some rate limiting thresholds? Also when there are a lot of domains to check you could check them in parallel, otherwise it gets quite slow to wait for the results (but th…
In general, each LTD can have around 300-1000 queries per day (the numbers is not officially listed, just from discussion on some forums)
Great advice to check them in parallel. Thanks!
To the people complaining about this being an app instead of a tool in a browser: This is a Show HN and someone made something for free and shared it. Maybe they just wanted to play around with Electron, they don't owe you anything.
I don't see it's as complaining. OP's project is literally the reverse of taking a traditional desktop software, e.g. a graphic editor, and making it into a web app. Here, it's something that naturally belongs to a web site, but instead packed up into an installable desktop app. I'd be really curious to see the rationale behind this.
I've been using some web-based tools. Somehow, they don't last (ie. namemesh, or domainsfortherestofus that @pwdisswordfish8 mention went offline for sometimes).
Then I thought having a desktop app would be great. For the long term, I don't have to worry the site is down.
To the people complaining about this being an app instead of a tool in a browser: This is a Show HN and someone made something for free and shared it. Maybe they just wanted to play around with Electron, they don't owe you anything.
Congrats on shipping and thanks for sharing with us! I'm going to try it, as recently the good old "impossibility dot org" (don't try that, it's NSFW now) went offline.
I used it a few times, like it a lot. No wonder, I tried to find it but couldn't. Thought I remember the name wrong
To the people complaining about this being an app instead of a tool in a browser: This is a Show HN and someone made something for free and shared it. Maybe they just wanted to play around with Electron, they don't owe you anything.
Is this another electron app? Why? This is 100% doable in the browser and has been done before with other sites. Why do I need to spend 300MiB of ram to search for domain names? Sorry to sound negative, it's just... the electron fad is getting really old.
I applied (and received access on my second attempt) about a decade ago for .com access. Among other things, I ran a check for any words in my spellcheck dictionary that were not already taken as .com domains. There is a reason for all the silly spellings in domain names today; I don't recall the first words that were available, but they were not short nor desirable for a domain name. There were also no 3 alphanumeric ascii character domain names left, at the time.
I applied through Verisign. But, they are currently directing folks to apply via ICAN directly.
https://www.verisign.com/en_US/channel-resources/domain-regi...
So why not a website with an opened-sourced git so it can't "go offline" ? Was there any other motivations to go electron, maybe to learn idk