Recommended APIs for checking domain availability?

Question

Does anyone have experience with the APIs of registrars like GoDaddy?

The goal is to use Javascript to check the availability of domain names. Someone asked a related question on StackOverflow, but the answers focused on WHOIS.

I'm hoping someone provides a more robust, JSON-based API for checking domain availability. It seems natural that registrars like GoDaddy would offer this.

Thanks!

Answer 1

To check the availability of a domain name, any WHOIS API would most-likely do the trick. After a quick search I found WHOIS XML API, which offers the XML/JSON libraries. You could alternatively parse "http://whois.domaintools.com/[your URL here]" for domain info/availability.