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This is my first project written in Node.JS. Really cool platform. I'd be happy to answer any questions about the implementation.

what material did you find the most helpful for learning node.js?

You sir, are a rockstar!

Maybe add a few more algorithms in the future, but you should get decent referral fees with this.

Let me add my voice to the chorus: great job! This is the best domain name generator site I've seen yet.

This is really great. Congrats. I was just thinking that I wanted help naming my next startup idea.

Where are you hosting this and what type of memory usage are you getting? Thanks, neat site!

Node is currently using 32MB, server load is at 0.09, on a Linode 512.

Searches served since posting here 5 hours ago: 21,000 :)

How do you store the words? In memory or do you use something like redis, mysql?

How are you looking up domain names?

DNS first, if there's no DNS record, I do a whois query. The work is spread over a pool of 6 servers, which run the lookups in parallel.

Is this within the TOU for whois queries?

If you want to keep the queries mostly in-house, you can get access to Verisign's copy of the .com zone file for free and download it once a day.

And if you don't even want to change your code, you could fire up a DNS server that serves the entries from that file.

that's really clever, using DNS as a first-level filter and only going out to whois if that comes up blank.

Great product. Hope you make a tonne of cash! :)

What DNS record type are you looking up? If it's A rather than NS, you might want to rethink... NS will return responses when A might not.