Search multiple domains?

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envision

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I have a list of a few hundred potential domains I'd be interested in. It's just various keywords combined in various ways + a ".com". I want to see which ones are still available.

Where can I do a search across all of these domains at once? Most places I found only allow to look up 10 at a time - too tedious. NamesPro.ca | Multiple Domain Search didn't mention a limit but when I paste in my whole list, it seems to crash their server.
 


If you have access to a Unix/Linux machine, you could run a simple "for" loop:

for x in `cat /path/to/domain_list.txt`; do
whois $x >> /path/to/output.txt
done

domain_list.txt would contain a single domain name on each line. You would likely need to change which whois database you queried by using the -h flag to prevent from being blocked.
 
I have: Mac OS X. It has a Unix-like terminal. Never thought of scripting it that way, good idea. But something seems wrong with the command. I get
Code: 
whois: txt.whois-servers.net: nodename nor servname provided, or not known
and the output file starts like this

Code: 
Whois Server Version 2.0

Domain names in the .com and .net domains can now be registered
with many different competing registrars. Go to http://www.internic.net
for detailed information.

Aborting search 50 records found .....
CAT.VGT.VITO.BE
CAT.TWAVE.CO.JP
CAT.TURKTOUR.RU
...

Cuts off after 50 domains and none of them contain any of my candidates. I'm not UNIX and shell script expert enough to see what's wrong. Can you help?
 
Cool, thanks!

I found the error in my attempt at UNIX scripting. The apostrophes in bearpaw's reply (`) aren't normal apostrophes ('). I had typed the command with normal apostrophes; when copied and pasted as bearpaw put it, it works. I found it works even better with nslookup though. Produces shorter output and puts less load on the server.

Thanks also for the two links. The first one (pcnames.com) gave me some false positives, i.e. reported domains as available that weren't. The RegistrarStats link works best.
 
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