# Domain checking solutions ?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/domain-checking-solutions/31432>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [August 31, 2000, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/domain-checking-solutions/31432 "2000-08-31T02:39:00Z")\
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**Author:** ![London\_Calling](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@London\_Calling](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/London_Calling)\
**Post date:** [August 31, 2000, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/domain-checking-solutions/31432/1 "2000-08-31T02:39:00Z")

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Further to the recent discussion about checking the availability of domain names and then finding a couple of days later that what was previously available has mysteriously been snapped up when you check again.

Here are a couple of possible solutions.

The first is a script a guy put together to help people out - wondered if there were any scripting guys here who would have a view (I know nothing at all). Seems it only hits the Internic d/b. Right ?

[http://www.dhead.com/whois/](http://www.dhead.com/whois/)

This one pretty much speaks for itself. Don’t know to much about it except one person saying they’ve used it for 6 months and nothing mysterious has happened to domains he’s search for.

[http://www.analogx.com/contents/download/network/whois.htm](http://www.analogx.com/contents/download/network/whois.htm)  
What do you think guys, looks pretty cool to me