Expired domains, own script or 3rd party service?

[Naughty]

I'd like to use my own (bought) script and edit it to send results (cron) and be able to grab some domains we need.

I'm not expecting to get milliondollar domains this way, but just get a notice once names we might be able to use expire/get deleted.

[bns666]

domaintools, snapnames, namejet...

[Naughty]

Yeah i know most of them. I'm just in between creating one of those myself to be able to get extra features *I* want;-) or keep using those (which i will forget to do after a day or 6;-)).

[georgeyw]

am interested in this too - where are the names listed if anywhere?

[Chris]

are you guys wanting one that just alerts you if it is ready to be regged or one that auto regs?

here is one that you can set to cron on your server daily and it will email you if it is ready

<?php


$domain_to_check = "DomainHere.com";

$ch = curl_init();

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, 'http://whois.domaintools.com/'.$domain_to_check);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_USERAGENT,'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.13) Gecko/20080311 Firefox/2.0.0.13');
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);

$buffer = curl_exec($ch);

if(strstr($buffer, "This domain name is not registered")) {
	echo "The domain is available";
	mail("your email here", "Your domain: ".$domain_to_check." is available" ");
} else {
	
}

?>

gfy coders feel free to pick this apart and make it better