Comments on: On Naming Startups (with Ruby)

By: Melvin Ram

Melvin Ram — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 21:02:38 +0000

BustaName is fantastic!

By: Matías

Matías — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 03:02:29 +0000

Nice…

By: Danielle Fong

Danielle Fong — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 08:22:55 +0000

Thanks Peter, that does seem much better. :-)

By: Peter Cooper

Peter Cooper — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 08:02:11 +0000

Consider using this script instead of just whois. Too many WHOIS queries and you can get blocked. Also checking for an A record first is a *lot* faster with no real need for threading.. http://gist.github.com/63893

And then.. you could just skip the Ruby and do it from Bash:

# da {fox,web,net,though}{whatever,a,b,c}{d,e,f}.com

Then let bash do the combining.. :)

By: Melvin Ram

Melvin Ram — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 07:00:47 +0000

Hey, I added this to github here: http://github.com/melvinram/domain-search

Might incorporate this into a full Rails app to put in a bunch of names and have it spit out what’s available in the future.

By: Danielle Fong

Danielle Fong — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 20:17:29 +0000

Ah, darn it, wordpress autoformating.

By: Lance Carlson

Lance Carlson — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 19:54:10 +0000

Haha this is great. I had to tweak it though a bit to get it to work. You have > twice in the snippet which should be >. There is also two < which should be <<. Also had to tweak the backslash code a bit. If you want my snippet, tweet me.