Finds short .com domain for you.
Why do you need short .com domain for your serious business?
You can ignore that almost every respected company is .com.
But even iOS virtual keyboards have that .com key!
Just imagine your .co users canceling autocompletion to .com, etc, etc.
There are NO 4-letter or less .com domains available at the time of writing.
All in use or For $$$$ale by squatters.
But, there are a lot of 5-letter .com-s waiting for you, for about $12/year only.
google.com is 6-letter, just like denisr.com is.
It is really hard to find great short .com domain just guessing.
Tools seen in 2013 did not satisfy me either.
Later in 2018: https://www.nameql.com/ and https://domainr.com/ are great.
So I have created a simple shortcom.py script.
It starts with config section:
#### config
prefix = 'my'
chars = 'abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz'
quantity = 2
postfix = 'x.com'
skip_until = None
sleep_seconds = 0.5
This means you are searching for my??x.com where ? is a-z. You may change anything.
Just keep sleep_seconds big enough to not abuse whois server.
skip_until may be set to e.g. 'myrrx.com' to resume from this point after any error or poweroff.
Result is displayed both to screen and saved to files available.txt and taken.txt respectively:
$ ./shortcom.py
myaax.com is taken
myabx.com is taken
myacx.com is available
myadx.com is available
myaex.com is taken
...
Optional spellable.py script
creates spellable-1.txt and spellable-2.txt files from available.txt,
assuming it is regularly hard to spell more than two consonants in a row. However it is not always the case.
That's all. Download the script, tailor config to your needs, and run it!
shortcom version 0.1.3
Copyright (C) 2013-2018 by Denis Ryzhkov denisr@denisr.com
MIT License, see http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT