short-domain-name-finder

Search for the shortest available domain names

What? Why?

I wanted to find out what's the shortest and nicest .fi domain name I could get, so I made this. You know, like, for a url-shortening service or something.

Also I wanted to get a little practice building a command line Ruby (not Rails) app.

Usage

1. clone
2. ruby run.rb
3. PROFIT!

Requirements

• ruby (tested on 2.2.0)
• whois

Features

• Perform a whois check on all domain names which are 2-4 characters long
  • But do not overload whois services (limit results to 20 or something)
• Support for other TLDs than .fi
• Ordering the results, give a domain name extra points for
  • Being short (duh!).
  • Includes two of the same characters

Missing features

• Support for ä, ö, å and whatever special characters are allowed
• Specify character(s) that have to be included
• Silent mode and verbose mode
• Tests?
• Better score if includes common characters (https://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/kielikello/kirjtil.html).

Results:

Example output looks like this: ➜ short-domain-name-finder git:(master) ✗ ruby run.rb Results: Free domains: 50 Taken domains: 7719 Top free: 35.fi a6.fi a7.fi 36.fi i5.fi i6.fi i7.fi i8.fi i9.fi t7.fi