How to check availability of domain name

[alanwalters1]

Originally Posted by Nemanja Vladislav

How can we check the domain name availability?

Haven't you see this thread and all the posts upstairs?

[mrgilb]

Yea I loved whois.sc/ it's a great tool. But now it charges to see what other domain names are resolving to a certain IP address. There is an alternative that gives you the full whois but I can't remember it and it's free.

[tonskihug]

Great work .. really informative .. and thanks a lot for sharing ..

[kanaga]

http://whois.ws/ is nice place for checking the availability of domain name..
You can also check the availability using the http://www.tucktail.com/ .

[ddemetrius456]

whois.sc will give tell you about the availability of domain name.....
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[DH - Tristan Perry]

You can also check a domain's availability at http://www.cogah.com/index.php/DomainWhois/

[semal]

Some of these look-up services are shady; they sometimes take a name you typed and put a hold on it, so if you try to buy that name with another company, it'll show that somebody has put a hold on that name and you can't buy it!

[DH - Tristan Perry]

Originally Posted by semal

Some of these look-up services are shady; they sometimes take a name you typed and put a hold on it, so if you try to buy that name with another company, it'll show that somebody has put a hold on that name and you can't buy it!

That's true. GoDaddy, Moniker and a few of the other big players are known to do this.

The one I linked to above doesn't do this - I coded it, and it queries the WHOIS servers and displays the results, nothing else. Hence why I recommend it

[pwrNolan]

all services let you check

[EuropeanDomainCentre]

Our availability check lets you test a domain name for +250 domain extensions. Will only take 30 sec per search

[airforce1]

I would recommend domainsbot.com or domain-suggestions.domaintools.com for this purpose. It would give suggestions on available, expired and other information on domains.

[ellen_nichole]

Originally Posted by Wade

In order to check the availability of domain name. You can go to a site http://whois.ws, and type in the domain name and hit on "Who.is Search".
If the domain name is available, then it will say that the domain name is available. Otherwise it will give the complete details of the domain name.

This is new information for me, thanks a lot.