domainsearch

domainsearch

A commandline tool that searches a given dictionary file for possible domain names created by simply inserting a dot in the word. By default, it will search all existing top-level domains, but you can also provide a list of domains to search.

Optionally, you can also have the tool check for dns availability, using the --verify parameter. It will retry queries that time out, until they're all queried, or if the same list of domains keep giving timeouts, whichever comes first.

Installation

npm install -g domainsearch

Basic usage

domainsearch dictionaryfile or domainsearch --word myword

Parameters

One of either dictionary or word must be given.

• --dictionary, -d — Specify the dictionary file to use
• --word, -w — Don't use a dictionary, but rather just use one specific word
• --domains, -D — Specify a comma-separated list of top-level domains to search (for example 'ga, it, net')
• --verify, -V — Check if the domains are available for registration
• --sort, -s — Alphabetically sort the output
• --alldomains, -a — Include all existing top-level domains, and not only ones that are known to be available for registration
• --include-nonsplit, -i — For the word "delicious", look for available top domains like "delicious.com", and not just clever constructs like "delicio.us"
• --exclude-xn, -x — Exclude domains that start with XN--

Examples

To search all existing top-level domains for Swedish words, without verification: domainsearch dictionaries/swedish.dic --alldomains

To search all existing top-level domains for Swedish words, with verification: domainsearch dictionaries/swedish.dic --verify --alldomains

To search only a few top-level domains for Swedish words, without verification: domainsearch dictionaries/swedish.dic --domains 'ga, se, zippo'

To search the entire english dictionary for available [word.domain] domains, excluding domains that start with XN--, verify availability, only look at top level domains that are possible to register, sort the output and store it in us.txt: domainsearch dictionaries/usenglish.dic --verify --exclude-xn --sort > us.txt

Be aware a big search like this takes something like 40 minutes to complete.