How can i add a domain search box into my website so people can search for a domain name?<br />
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Obviously the domain search facility will be an affiliation of an hosting company?<br />
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Hope someone can help?<!--content-->You could just drop a free script on to your server:<br />
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PHP: <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://php.resourceindex.com/Complete_Scripts/Internet_Utilities/Whois/">http://php.resourceindex.com/Complete_S ... ies/Whois/</a><!-- m --><br />
Perl: <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://cgi.resourceindex.com/Programs_and_Scripts/Perl/Internet_Utilities/Whois/">http://cgi.resourceindex.com/Programs_a ... ies/Whois/</a><!-- m --><!--content-->Just to explain a bit, a domain search is properly known as a WHOIS query. The company you registar your domain with stores your details on one of their servers. <br />
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When you do a WHOIS query, it will first check the domain against a master list held by the company in charge of the TLD.<br />
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For example, <!-- w --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.gavinpearce.co.uk">www.gavinpearce.co.uk</a><!-- w --> is typed in.<br />
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The script will contact a master list held on numerous computers about which company owns .uk. The script will then tell it Nominet runs .uk.<br />
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The script will go and say hello to the nominet computers and tell them that it wishes to check gavinpearce.co.uk whois information. Nominet computers will reply, Ok, gavinpearce.co.uk is on 123-Reg (<!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.gavinnet.com/ws/modules.php?op=modload&name=Web_Links&file=index&req=visit&lid=9">http://www.gavinnet.com/ws/modules.php? ... isit&lid=9</a><!-- m -->) servers. Please knock on the door there. (they dont really say that but you know
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So the script will then check against servers for gavinpearce.co.uk which will then echo back the information.<br />
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Hope that explains it a bit incase any here didn't know, sorry to bore you if you did.<br />
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123-Reg (<!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.gavinnet.com/ws/modules.php?op=modload&name=Web_Links&file=index&req=visit&lid=9">http://www.gavinnet.com/ws/modules.php? ... isit&lid=9</a><!-- m -->)<!--content-->
<br />
Obviously the domain search facility will be an affiliation of an hosting company?<br />
<br />
Hope someone can help?<!--content-->You could just drop a free script on to your server:<br />
<br />
PHP: <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://php.resourceindex.com/Complete_Scripts/Internet_Utilities/Whois/">http://php.resourceindex.com/Complete_S ... ies/Whois/</a><!-- m --><br />
Perl: <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://cgi.resourceindex.com/Programs_and_Scripts/Perl/Internet_Utilities/Whois/">http://cgi.resourceindex.com/Programs_a ... ies/Whois/</a><!-- m --><!--content-->Just to explain a bit, a domain search is properly known as a WHOIS query. The company you registar your domain with stores your details on one of their servers. <br />
<br />
When you do a WHOIS query, it will first check the domain against a master list held by the company in charge of the TLD.<br />
<br />
For example, <!-- w --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.gavinpearce.co.uk">www.gavinpearce.co.uk</a><!-- w --> is typed in.<br />
<br />
The script will contact a master list held on numerous computers about which company owns .uk. The script will then tell it Nominet runs .uk.<br />
<br />
The script will go and say hello to the nominet computers and tell them that it wishes to check gavinpearce.co.uk whois information. Nominet computers will reply, Ok, gavinpearce.co.uk is on 123-Reg (<!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.gavinnet.com/ws/modules.php?op=modload&name=Web_Links&file=index&req=visit&lid=9">http://www.gavinnet.com/ws/modules.php? ... isit&lid=9</a><!-- m -->) servers. Please knock on the door there. (they dont really say that but you know
)<br /><br />
So the script will then check against servers for gavinpearce.co.uk which will then echo back the information.<br />
<br />
<br />
Hope that explains it a bit incase any here didn't know, sorry to bore you if you did.<br />
<br />
123-Reg (<!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.gavinnet.com/ws/modules.php?op=modload&name=Web_Links&file=index&req=visit&lid=9">http://www.gavinnet.com/ws/modules.php? ... isit&lid=9</a><!-- m -->)<!--content-->