Alex C D1DJ

Hi

What code would i use to create a domain name search

Im new to programming and any help would be much appreciated

Thanks
Alex

DaWei

I would suggest that it's to your benefit to become "unnew" to programming by choosing a language other than assembler. On the other hand, if you want to become "unnew" to the microprocessor system, which encompasses hardware AND software, then assembler will get you into that ballpark. Gird your loins generically first, without regard to a specific platform.

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mackenga

As for domain name search - I'm not sure if I have you right, here, but I take this to mean you enter a domain name and the program checks for availability? Or perhaps you mean a program that uses a word list to try to find interesting available names? Either of these, or any similar program I suppose, would probably best be written in a much higher level, probably interpreted language.

Personally, I favour Tcl ( http://www.tcl.tk ) - though people around here are probably sick of me saying that by now! All DNS transactions are slick and easy with the dns package, which is bundled with recent Tcl distributions. Tcl is very quick and easy to learn and program in, and I personally think it would make an excellent first language. It integrates well with C, so it leads into a good future direction for your learning as far as programming is concerned, when you want to take things a bit further.

Alternatively, Perl is great for this sort of program, too; I'd use Perl to do this if I was going to do it as a CGI script (for example, if you wanted people visiting your website to be able to check availability of domains). Perl is arguably not the easiest language to learn, but it's very useful, and much better aligned to the sort of thing you're hoping to do than assembly language would be.