Question

Is there any way to generate words based on characters and checking if a domain exists with this word (ping)?

What I want to do is to generate words based on some characters, example ‘abcdefgh’, and then ping generatedword.com to check if it exists.

Answer 1

You don’t want to use the ping command, but you can use Python’s socket.gethostbyname() function to determine whether a host exists.

def is_valid_host(hostname):     try:         addr = socket.gethostbyname(hostname)     except socket.gaierror, ex:         return False     return True  hosts = ['abc', 'yahoo.com', 'google.com', 'nosuchagency.gov'] filter(is_valid_host, hosts) 

This is going to take tons of time and maybe make your ISP mad at you. You’re better off either:

1. Using a lower-level DNS interface such as dnspython, or

2. Finding a direct interface to domain registrars, such as whois, and querying that.

You aren’t going to use this to spam people, are you?