Domai.nr

The domai.nr service is a handy way to find domains that make nice short URLs like debu.gs, nick.is, and craftstud.io.

I had a need awhile back to access this web service from a script and query a bunch of domains all at the same time, so I thought it would be nice to have a wrapper in Factor.

The domai.nr service has a JSON API for performing searches, that we can build URLs for:

: domainr-url ( query -- url )
    URL" http://domai.nr/api/json/search"
    swap "q" set-query-param ;

Each result has these fields that are returned:

TUPLE: result domain host path subdomain availability
register_url ;

It is pretty simple to map a JSON request to these result tuples:

: domainr ( query -- data )
    domainr-url http-get nip json> "results" of
    [ result from-slots ] map ;

Finally, we can perform a query and print the output nicely showing which domains or URLs are available:

: domainr. ( query -- )
    domainr [
        [ subdomain>> ] [ path>> ] [ availability>> ] tri
        "%s%s - %s\n" printf
    ] each ;

Running this query for "factorcode" looks like:

IN: scratchpad "factorcode" domainr.
factorcode.com - available
factorcode.net - available
factorcode.org - taken
factorcode.co - available
factor.co/de - taken
factorcode.io - available
factorco.de - available
factorc.de - available
fac.to/rcode - available
f.actor/code - unavailable
f.ac/torcode - unavailable
fctrc.de - available
fctr.cd/e - available
fc.tr/cde - unavailable

Well, if we wanted to make our URL something like factorco.de we could, but I'm not sure that's worth it. Still, a neat way to look for interesting URLs and available on my GitHub.