Suso's safe domain availability checker

A safer place to check for domain availability. A safe domain search that does not log or save what domain names you search for. Please only use this website if you want to check if a domain is available. Do not use other websites unless they offer some guarantee that they do not share their domain lookup logs with 3rd parties.

Enter a domain name to check:

This website was created to provide everyone with a safer way to check for domain availability without fear that the query itself will be recorded and used to snatch the domain from you before you can register it. This is actually a problem being experienced by people who use other registrar domain availability search pages.

This page is provided to the public for free as a courtesy of Suso webhosting. Please consider us for your website, VPS and dedicated server hosting needs.

If you think the results of a lookup through this page are in error, please contact Suso via support at suso dot org. You will need to let us know what domain you were trying to lookup though so we can investigate why it didn't work out. Sorry.

News

2010-07-22 - The .co Top Level Domain (TLD) has opened to public registration and already over 14,000 out of 17,576 of the 3 letter combinations on that TLD have been taken. Suso did a scan of all 3 letter combinations and made the results available here for your convenience in finding a short domain on this new TLD.

Privacy practices

This web application does the following in order to ensure that your domain lookups are kept as private as possible:

Use POST operation instead of GET to prevent the query string from being logged by Apache
The domains that you look up are not stored in any type of database, file or other medium through this script.
The queries from this application are not being logged by Suso's nameservers. (See below for information about the Internet's root DNS servers)
No 3rd party is involved in the creation of this page.
We do not sell any information that is gathered from this page.
Whois queries that need to be done are only done against global whois servers and are not "recursive" like some command line whois clients are. So they do not hit registrar's whois servers.

NOTE: We do store the SHA1 checksum of the domain you search for so that we can collect statistics on repeat lookups of the same domain. This will help us determine if we should be caching answers to avoid doing so many DNS and whois lookups. As this page increases in popularity, it may be necessary to do this to help avoid being blocked by the global whois servers. We need to know how effective caching would be. A checksum is a string that represents a value, but cannot be used to find the original value.

We also log the IP address that you come from, but again this is mostly so that we can help prevent abuse and automated processes.

You may also notice a cookie is sent from this site. We use that to start a session so that we can limit the number of whois queries that you can submit.

Doing your own domain checks

If you are extra paranoid about your security, then your best choice is to do your own DNS and Whois queries:

Open up a terminal window or command line application.
Run nslookup -type=ns domain.com and if it returns a list of nameservers, then the domain is not available.
If you have Linux, *BSD or Mac OS X, you can run whois domain.com.

There is one major flaw in this application that we can't get around. It still needs to use the root name servers on the Internet in order to run the query. As of October of 2007, there was rumour that Verisign might be selling the 'no domain' queries to the root server to domain squaters and domain tasters. We consider this a huge violation of privacy because if this were true, there would be no way to not have your domain queries logged.