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/ Basic

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