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		ck2 on April 4, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: How To Keep Your Domain Name Searches Safe From Po... You cannot even trust registrars (netsol and godaddy are prime examples). Spend a few hours and write your own code to do direct registry searches through the whois telnet query. I wrote one myself, it's not that hard and you'll learn a bit.

Joakal on April 4, 2011 [–]

Doesn't the whois queries databases like GoDaddy?

ck2 on April 4, 2011 | [–]

Only if you continue to resolve registered domains to the local registrar.

You don't have to resolve them that far to see if they are not-registered (or when they expire) just hit the main registry for the TLD you are interested in.

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