Whois wildcard query

Question

In a dicussion with an organization owning the "foo" trademark I'd like to look for all domains containing foo in their name or at least domains starting with "foo". How could I do such a whois search?

Solution

The best search engine I know of for this kind of search is the one provided by N@me Droppers. Type your trademark in the search bar and use the pull down to select "Only Registered Domains".

To test it, I put in "superuser" (in .com only) and it found superuser.com, androidsuperuser.com, asciisuperuser.com, asksuperuser,com, beasuperuser.com, superuserfilter.com, and so on.

Comments

[Wolfgang Fahl]

I get an invalid query If i use a wildcard

[Paul Walsh]

From a command line? Or the web version above? Asterisk (*) can only be at the end, no spaces.

[Wolfgang Fahl]

on a command line with no spaces

[Paul Walsh]

Actually quotes are also necessary to prevent local file matches:whois -h whois.internic.net "keyword*"

[Paul Walsh]

Also whois runs on port 43 which may be blocked by some providers/facilites so the web version will be needed, even for a standard whois query but there are many sites who offer that eg. who.is

[LifeInTheTrees]

That doesnt work any more