# Need help adding domain availability checker to site

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/need-help-adding-domain-availability-checker-to-site/183943>\
**Category:** web dev\
**Created:** [March 31, 2006, 12:16pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/need-help-adding-domain-availability-checker-to-site/183943 "2006-03-31T12:16:46Z")\
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**Author:** ![spindrift](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5ac83/32.png) [@spindrift](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/spindrift)\
**Post date:** [March 31, 2006, 12:16pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/need-help-adding-domain-availability-checker-to-site/183943/1 "2006-03-31T12:16:46Z")

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Hi there!

Thank you for checking out my post…

On my website I want a domain availability checker - just some sort of script that can check a domain and see whether it is valid and return the result “taken” or “available”. I checked out the script at [http://www.asptutorial.info/sscript/Accessremotepages\_domain.asp](http://www.asptutorial.info/sscript/Accessremotepages_domain.asp) and as I’m using HTML, put an iFrame to a file called domain\_checker.asp but it didn’t work - the code just appeared in the iFrame.

I know hardly anything about ASP to be honest but is there a way that I can add an availability checker to my site?

Many thanks and I hope to hear from you.

Take care,

Mark

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**Author:** ![hkl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a8b319/32.png) [@hkl](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/hkl)\
**Post date:** [March 31, 2006, 12:34pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/need-help-adding-domain-availability-checker-to-site/183943/2 "2006-03-31T12:34:59Z")

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does your host support asp?

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**Author:** ![spindrift](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5ac83/32.png) [@spindrift](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/spindrift)\
**Post date:** [March 31, 2006, 1:26pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/need-help-adding-domain-availability-checker-to-site/183943/3 "2006-03-31T13:26:41Z")

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hello hkl! (again!)

my host does support ASP - I just tested it locally on my PC.

Any suggestions?

Many thanks,

Mark

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**Author:** ![hkl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a8b319/32.png) [@hkl](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/hkl)\
**Post date:** [March 31, 2006, 3:29pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/need-help-adding-domain-availability-checker-to-site/183943/4 "2006-03-31T15:29:18Z")

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not sure man. all i remember from asp class is that it was a pain in the butt compared to php. ☹

sorry dude. try posting it in the server side forum.

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**Author:** ![bwh2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/8c91f0/32.png) [@bwh2](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/bwh2)\
**Post date:** [March 31, 2006, 3:42pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/need-help-adding-domain-availability-checker-to-site/183943/5 "2006-03-31T15:42:12Z")

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i would look into using perl. there’s a perl whois package which is easy to use. if you’re familiar with php, you should be alright with perl. most hosts that support php also support perl.