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I use AJAX to check Australian domain availability with this web service: http://portal.ausregistry.com.au/whois/whois_check_result.jsp?qry=[AU domain goes here]

Are there equivalent services that expose availability for other TLD's? (particularly the big 3: .com, .org, .net)

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While I've never used it, you may want to check out whoisxmlapi (not free)

Well, whois lookups are free. Here is a PHP implementation that you can probably alter or convert to your language of choice.

jasonbar
yeah I'll need a free solution
Plumo
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Domain.com has a similar service, but it is not public, I'm afraid. You can use fetch.php for this.

+3  A: 

You could use AJAX to do a scrape of certain strings in the HTML of any WHOIS site that takes URL/query string parameters (like http://whois.domaintools.com/yourdomain.com). Not a pretty solution but it'd get you by in a pinch.

JoshMock