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sathishmanohar on Sept 17, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: Tell HN: Never search for domains on Godaddy.com

I was always suspicious of godaddy and you never know which domain registrars would go rogue in this respect in the future.

So I created a simple shell script from which I do all my domain availability searches now. It is also way faster than using any web based searches.

Link https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17824665

im3w1l on Sept 17, 2020 [–]

Maybe this works presently, but under the hood whois must still be querying some server who could use your query to buy it? I guess the purchase intent is lower with whois, as you may drown in other queries.

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