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Hahahahaha, this will wreak HAVOC on GoDaddy's domain-squatting spam-business. I can't prove anything but the last time we've brainstormed a brand and domain name, within a couple of days ALL of the name variants we searched for (which were free at the time of first search, and we did the search on an EU service) were taken, registered to GoDaddy, and a "helpful representative" offered us to buy it off them for like…
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Ironically I met my GF online because I mentioned I was a Lisp developer and it turns our so was she. Not surprisingly it turned out we knew a lot of people in common, so it's surprising that we hadn't previously met. Sounds like you might have a good dating niche.
Sounds like a functional relationship
"A dating platform that can only be accessed through a rather complex command line tool" yields: LoveShell.com
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You could just do WHOIS queries instead of API. That should be relatively accurate. EX https://pypi.org/project/python-whois/ You don't need to actually care about what it says, just if there is a record returned or not.
Pretty much all whois providers forbid this. For example, in a whois response for a .com domain, the output includes this: > TERMS OF USE: You are not authorized to access or query our Whois database through the use of electronic processes that are high-volume and automated except as reasonably necessary to register domain names or modify existing registrations... Since they aren't registering domain names or modifyi…
The project is for the express purpose of registering domain names. And the project only does queries as needed to verify domain ownership - falling under "reasonably necessary".
IANAL so my opinion means very little, but it seems like the TOS are targeted towards people who want to abuse the system for doing things like mass data collection, spamming, and other "bad behaviors". Not someone who wants to make sure domains are available for registration.
After all, how do the big players do it? Simply downloading the list of all valid domains even once a day would not be sufficient.
For anyone who is interested, after about [edited] 40k requests, this has cost me $10 in OpenAI charges and another estimated ~$100 in domain verification.
This is awesome. Any plans to incorporate other tlds?
hmmm. seems to be an issue with dnsimple. the suggested domains i tested are already registered.
The issue was most likely my mistake. I think I fixed it. Let's see how it performs in the next few days.
Available.....for $75,000. Not very useful to know it's available for a price like that.