Domain Name Availability

jason2li

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You can for example use IANA Root Zone Database to find who is keeping track of each top domain, each of these have a whois service you can access with a socket on port 43. The information is free for legitimate usage, ie simple lookups for reasons specified in guidelines. Whois is an easy protocol; just send a terminated domain name string and read the response. Example:
VB.NET:
Function Whois(ByVal db As String, ByVal domain As String) As String
    Using tcp As New Net.Sockets.TcpClient(db, 43)
        Dim q() As Byte = System.Text.Encoding.ASCII.GetBytes(domain & vbNewLine)
        tcp.GetStream.Write(q, 0, q.Length)
        Using reader As New IO.StreamReader(tcp.GetStream, System.Text.Encoding.ASCII)
            Return reader.ReadToEnd
        End Using
    End Using
End Function
VB.NET:
Dim txt As String = Whois("whois.norid.no", "akajieifcvnvj.no")
 
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