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Comment by andrewgjohnson | Hacker News Reader

Made me smile for a minute but really unpractical. I'll probably register aksjfgkahgiowetiuwj.info from Godaddy for 99cents just to get involved

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Why would this be practical? Do you know what a white elephant gift is? Wikipedia: "A white elephant is an idiom for a valuable but burdensome possession of which its owner cannot dispose and whose cost (particularly cost of upkeep) is out of proportion to its usefulness or worth." Get with it.

I believe there's a 60 or 90 day period before you can transfer a domain after you've registered it anyways.

You can usually transfer it to another user on the same registrar. They just don't want to lose it to another company. (At least, that's my super rough understanding of it.)

You should match people that have submitted domains from the same registrar so fees are avoided in most cases.

That sounds like a wonderful idea... but far too much work for it to be worth it. Maybe next year...

You could make the source available and let some of us help contribute to make this possible.

Oh it's simple really.

  $conn = fsockopen ('whois.verisign-grs.com', 43, $errno, $errstr, 1);
  fputs($conn, $domain."\r\n");
  while(!feof($conn)) 
	$output .= fgets($conn,128);
  $registrar = reset(explode("\n",end(explode('Registrar:',$output))));

Awesome! Thanks for this. I'll play with it over the weekend. Still working on the specifics.

Not if I register it first.

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