[MassDomainChecker] Bash Script to find 2 or 3 letter domains (or use with your own dictionary file)

hoczaj

You may struggled like me in the past, finding cool, short domains. Like: ay.ee, or uxy.co (those are still free)
So I came up with a script that made my life easier.

Please note: This is a really simple, basic script!
I share it with you, because you may find it useful:
https://github.com/hocza/mdac

Installation

If you do not have "whois" installed, the script tries to 'sudo apt-get install whois'
git clone http://github.com/hocza/mdac cd mdac chmod +x domain.sh ./domain.sh

Usage

./domain.sh <TLD> [string] [list]

• TLD You have to give the top level domain.
  For example: ./domain.sh com

• string (Optional) The string that indicates that the domain is not taken.
  For example: ./domain.sh com "Not found"
  Default is: "Not found"

• list (Optional) Custom domain list/dictionary.

If you want to check for 3 char available domains, just simply:

./domain.sh co
Since the script checks for 3 char domains by default.

Some whois server give different answer if the domain is still free. You can change the default "Not found" string to anything you wish.

./domain.sh pl "No information available"

You can use custom list. For example If you're looking for two char domains instead of three. (File of the Permutations of {a..z}{a..z} included: 2clist)

./domain.sh co "Not found" 2clist

Or you can use any dictionary, separated with space or enter.

Available domains will be written to domain.free file during the process!

taronyu

Isn't there a limit on every whois server?

hoczaj

Yes there is. Some has 120 request / minute. Some of them ban you for 2 minutes if you request 20 in 1 minute.

However you can edit the sleep value as you wish.
sleep=1.
Then run in background, next day you have all available domains in domain.free file.

Maybe I'll add a "distributed query" function to the To-Do list

VPN

Cool script. I just picked up a handful of 3 and 4 letter .xyz domains yesterday.

Cakey

I wish I had this when I was searching after a good .gy name, took me a while to find my nice pi.gy, nice script never the less

AlexanderM

Fuck that's cool. Well done.

lelewku

thanks will use this.

hoczaj

Thank you for your kind words

AlexanderM

works great

Alexander-iMac:~ Alexander$ git clone http://github.com/hocza/mdac
Cloning into 'mdac'...
remote: Counting objects: 14, done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (12/12), done.
remote: Total 14 (delta 4), reused 12 (delta 2)
Unpacking objects: 100% (14/14), done.
Checking connectivity... done.
Alexander-iMac:~ Alexander$ cd mdac
Alexander-iMac:mdac Alexander$ chmod +x domain.sh
Alexander-iMac:mdac Alexander$ ./domain.sh
Mass Domain Availability Checker Script 0.0.1
2014 - Jozsef Hocza 
Github: github.com/hocza/
--------------------------
The script by default checks the permutation of 3 characters. (a..z)
Or, you can use your own dictionary
e.g.: ./domain.sh co "Not found" mylist
--------------------------
Usage: ./domain.sh  [string] [list]
            You have to give the top level domain. 
                 For example: ./domain.sh com
       [string]  (Optional) 
                 The string that indicates 
                 that the domain is not taken.
                 For example: ./domain.sh com "Not found"
                 Default is: "Not found"
         [list]  (Optional) 
                 Custom domain list/dictionary.
                 You can use your own word list.
Alexander-iMac:mdac Alexander$ 

rmlhhd

Works well although I'm getting No whois server is known for this kind of object. for .xyz and .wiki

rmlhhd

Doesn't matter, I found added the host to the WHOIS command within .sh file.

Gunter

How do I convert this for 4 letters?

neroux

@darknyan said:
How do I convert this for 4 letters?

Line 35 in the shell script.

Falco33

@darknyan said:
How do I convert this for 4 letters?

I guess you can use a 4 letter dictionary or do you mean random 4 letter?

Brad

Nicely done.

hoczaj

@darknyan yes you can edit the shell script itself.

Or generate your own random 4 letter dictionary:
echo {a..z}{a..z}{a..z}{a..z} > 4clist

hoczaj

Okay guys, I get a lot of "oh it is not working for me" or "how do I do that or this"

I decided to make a web app for you: https://stack.xyz
It is collecting the free domains right now. It will take a while to check all possibilities and almost all tlds, but while it is scrapping data, you can still use it.

Davidx

@hoczaj said:
Okay guys, I get a lot of "oh it is not working for me" or "how do I do that or this"

I decided to make a web app for you: https://stack.xyz
It is collecting the free domains right now. It will take a while to check all possibilities and almost all tlds, but while it is scrapping data, you can still use it.

how'd you make that? :P
Copyright 2013 should be fixed, heads up.

hoczaj

@David_P thanks, fixed

Made a thread for the web app.
http://lowendtalk.com/discussion/29617/stack-xyz-get-those-cool-short-domains-you-always-wanted-your-domain-database#latest