web2nam.es
I am pleased to release Web2Names, a little toy to help you find a domain name. It does some tricky stemming on your search term to help find nearby words. Try searching on iphone (I kinda like “iphoni.es” and “iphoned.org”. )
implementation details
The site caches results very aggressively, because querying nameservers for scores of domains at a time is slow. It uses dig ns for the lookups, which means it occasionally returns false negatives (saying a domain is available when it really isn’t) if a site’s DNS configuration is completely hosed.
Web2Names is a Camping app. It is deployed behind Apache 2.2 with multiple load-balanced mongrels. It doesn’t use a database. Instead it uses Manfred Stienstra’s page cache library.
August 20, 2007