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Cool idea! I think to make it really useful you should be comparing all of the permutations (at least for one of the columns) for me without me having to click

Cool idea! I think to make it really useful you should be comparing all of the permutations (at least for one of the columns) for me without me having to click through each one by hand. If I give you a word it's already pretty clear that the word is taken and I'm looking for alternatives.

grinnick 14y ago
It's tough because it's not as difficult as you might imagine to get your IP address rate limited. If a lot of people were using it at once and I was sending out hundreds of availability checking requests I'd probably hit the limits. For example, I had this hosted on Heroku for a while and tons of requests were failing because Heroku uses shared IP addresses for all the sites it hosts. Evidently I wasn't the only person doing domain availability checks from their network. Also, the UI would get pretty nuts right?
- firloop 14y ago
  Is it possible to run the domain availability checks from the client-side with AJAX?
  - grinnick 14y ago
    Not sure to be honest but probably not. My availability checks eventually go through this ruby gem: http://www.ruby-whois.org/ http://www.ruby-whois.org/ Basically it just does a whois lookup on the domain and I don't think I could replicate that behavior from the client side. Edit: This comment says it would be possible http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5132750 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5132750
    - raylu 14y ago
      But not client-side. Still, better to just do a DNS lookup (not rate-limited) than WHOIS.