Timeline for Domain Lookup API
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| Mar 12, 2016 at 20:36 | comment | added | Markus Malkusch | DNS is not a reliable source of truth. It's possible to register a domain name without a DNS record. Also existing DNS records might point to names which are free again. | |
| Dec 25, 2011 at 12:27 | vote | accept | Imran Omar Bukhsh | ||
| Oct 25, 2011 at 12:19 | comment | added | Jacek Prucia | @DeanHarding Well... the question was how to find if a domain does exist or not, not who owns it. And as for the normal DNS lookup, client computers do a lot of DNS caching (even browsers have their own cache to save some time and bandwith) which might (under some circumstances) provide you with a false answer. Direct querying will always be true. | |
| Oct 25, 2011 at 12:07 | comment | added | Dean Harding | This will tell if you the name resolves, but not who owns it. Also, I'm not sure what the advantage of this would be over just querying your computer's configured caching DNS server (i.e. just doing a normal DNS lookup). | |
| Oct 25, 2011 at 12:02 | comment | added | TZHX | +1 - there's definitely features for this in C#/VB (for ASP) in the System.Net namespace. PHP also has a dns_get_record function. Python has it in the socket namespace... so whatever language you use, there'll almost certainly be a core library providing DNS features. | |
| Oct 25, 2011 at 11:54 | history | answered | Jacek Prucia | CC BY-SA 3.0 |