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This is my first project written in Node.JS. Really cool platform. I'd be happy to answer any questions about the implementation.

jseifer 16y ago
How are you looking up domain names?
- chaosmachine 16y ago
  DNS first, if there's no DNS record, I do a whois query. The work is spread over a pool of 6 servers, which run the lookups in parallel.
  - wtracy 16y ago
    Is this within the TOU for whois queries?
  - kevindication 16y ago
    If you want to keep the queries mostly in-house, you can get access to Verisign's copy of the .com zone file for free and download it once a day. http://www.verisign.com/domain-name-services/domain-information-center/tld-zone-access/index.html http://www.verisign.com/domain-name-services/domain-informat... And if you don't even want to change your code, you could fire up a DNS server that serves the entries from that file.
  - user24 16y ago
    that's really clever, using DNS as a first-level filter and only going out to whois if that comes up blank. Great product. Hope you make a tonne of cash! :)
  - mike-cardwell 16y ago
    What DNS record type are you looking up? If it's A rather than NS, you might want to rethink... NS will return responses when A might not.
thomasswift 16y ago
Where are you hosting this and what type of memory usage are you getting? Thanks, neat site!
- chaosmachine 16y ago
  Node is currently using 32MB, server load is at 0.09, on a Linode 512. Searches served since posting here 5 hours ago: 21,000 :)
some1else 16y ago
You sir, are a rockstar! Maybe add a few more algorithms in the future, but you should get decent referral fees with this.
jswinghammer 16y ago
This is really great. Congrats. I was just thinking that I wanted help naming my next startup idea.
dorkitude 16y ago
what material did you find the most helpful for learning node.js?
compay 16y ago
Let me add my voice to the chorus: great job! This is the best domain name generator site I've seen yet.
matthijs 16y ago
How do you store the words? In memory or do you use something like redis, mysql?

jseifer 16y ago

How are you looking up domain names?

chaosmachine 16y ago
DNS first, if there's no DNS record, I do a whois query. The work is spread over a pool of 6 servers, which run the lookups in parallel.
- wtracy 16y ago
  Is this within the TOU for whois queries?
- kevindication 16y ago
  If you want to keep the queries mostly in-house, you can get access to Verisign's copy of the .com zone file for free and download it once a day. http://www.verisign.com/domain-name-services/domain-information-center/tld-zone-access/index.html http://www.verisign.com/domain-name-services/domain-informat... And if you don't even want to change your code, you could fire up a DNS server that serves the entries from that file.
- user24 16y ago
  that's really clever, using DNS as a first-level filter and only going out to whois if that comes up blank. Great product. Hope you make a tonne of cash! :)
- mike-cardwell 16y ago
  What DNS record type are you looking up? If it's A rather than NS, you might want to rethink... NS will return responses when A might not.

thomasswift 16y ago

Where are you hosting this and what type of memory usage are you getting? Thanks, neat site!

chaosmachine 16y ago
Node is currently using 32MB, server load is at 0.09, on a Linode 512. Searches served since posting here 5 hours ago: 21,000 :)

some1else 16y ago

You sir, are a rockstar! Maybe add a few more algorithms in the future, but you should get decent referral fees with this.

jswinghammer 16y ago

This is really great. Congrats. I was just thinking that I wanted help naming my next startup idea.

dorkitude 16y ago

what material did you find the most helpful for learning node.js?

compay 16y ago

Let me add my voice to the chorus: great job! This is the best domain name generator site I've seen yet.

matthijs 16y ago

How do you store the words? In memory or do you use something like redis, mysql?