Hello!

I have seen soo many Hosting companies which provide the functionality to check the domain name availablity.

I want to add this functionality into my website. How can I do this??

Any idea..
Any help..
Will really be appriciated.

Thank you,
Zeeshan Ahmed

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Zeeshan Dar
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Hiii itHighway!!

I have only idea ,not implemented yet!!,Plz let me know if you have other choices

1>from your asp/jsp/php page make a request for that required domain.
  check the response code if it is 200 then OK
2>you can even use javascript for client side

Be sure that you are not violeting any secutiry constraints of requested url.

For more info abt Status Code
plz visit
http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec10.html
hope this will help you


Cheers :)

vinod

This would only check whether there is a current and responsive web server located at the requested domain. If I have the domain www.reserverforfutureprojects.com which I intend to use next year, you won't get a 200 status code, but the domain is still taken.

One of the ways to do this is talk with your ISP. They often have web services or web pages available that allow you to query their domain lists programmatically.

Cheers,

Imar
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Imar Spaanjaars
Everyone is unique, except for me.

Thanks for your reply..

Actually, I am developing a website for a Hosting Company. They want to add feature for Customers to check the domain availability.
Please browse "http://www.fortunecity.com/web-hosting-c.shtml" to get an idea of what I want.

On fortunecity.com when Customer select a Hosting Plan, it then ask the customer to check domain availbility and if domain is already taken, it provides full details of domain.

Regards
Zeeshan Ahmed

In that case, I have no idea how to do this. Sorry...

Imar
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Imar Spaanjaars
Everyone is unique, except for me.