Checking if a domain is registered / available?

[DimPrawn]

I need a way that a program or script can make a call out to the Internet to know if a domain name is available to register or not.

It needs to be simple, ideally the program needs an XML reponse or simple means to be sure 100% whether the domain can be registered or not, not some screen scraping, and with no (reasonable) limit to the numer of requests.

Any ideas of a web service of simple HTTP Post/Get with a simple response on whether the domain is available or not?


TIA

[Durbs]

http://www.sitepoint.com/article/bui...ookup-asp-net/

[voodooflux]

I need a way that a program or script can make a call out to the Internet to know if a domain name is available to register or not.

It needs to be simple, ideally the program needs an XML reponse or simple means to be sure 100% whether the domain can be registered or not, not some screen scraping, and with no (reasonable) limit to the numer of requests.

Any ideas of a web service of simple HTTP Post/Get with a simple response on whether the domain is available or not?

TIA

http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?t=467446 has some suggestions - most look to be PHP based but might give you some ideas.

[DimPrawn]

http://www.sitepoint.com/article/bui...ookup-asp-net/

Cool, I think I can pick the bones out of that and wrap it all up into a webservice I can reuse.

Cheers.