Can I just make comment? - don't mean to hijack your thread - you should not be using whois lookups to bulk check domain availability - unless you really need all that WHOIS info.
there are better , faster , more network friendly ways
1. for example run your domains through a simple dns check first - if there are dns servers showing , the domain must be registered (reverse not always true). for those with mac osx / linux :
[pbg42:~/Documents] paul% host -t ns nonexistantdomains.com
Host nonexistantdomains.com.lan not found: 3(NXDOMAIN)
[pbg42:~/Documents] paul% host -t ns takendomains.com
takendomains.com name server ns1.hozt.com.
takendomains.com name server ns2.hozt.com.
You can batch this easily with:
foreach var (`cat mylistofdomains.txt`)
host -t ns $var >> dnscheckresults.txt
sleep 1
end
the sleep is there to stop the script from going into meltdown
there are no limits with DNS lookups AFAIK
2. Or for lists with up to 500 keywords at a time of course just use a common bulk availablility check like the one at
www.cheapnames.com (under bulk reg)
You can cut/paste and check thousands in a few minutes as cheapnames/godaddy/wwd (and other registrars) maintain their own lists of availability which give near instant results.
dax
