grep 'ca$' /usr/share/dict/words|tr '[A-Z]' '[a-z]'|sort -u|sed 's/ca$/.ca/'|while read x;do ping -c1 $x >/dev/null 2>&1 || echo $x;done

but ping isn't very good at seeing if something is registered... and `whois` doesn't seem to have an error code.

Any suggestions on a CLI way to check if a domain is registered?

../Dave

On Thu, 25 Jul 2024 at 10:59, Giles Orr via talk <talk@gtalug.org> wrote:

I was deeply disappointed that I couldn't buy "cloa.ca". Whoever did
buy it isn't even using that disgusting name yet. Not that I had any
particular use in mind myself ... It's very hard to come up with
words that end in "ca."

Wow - no, it's not all that bad:

`grep 'ca$' /usr/share/dict/words`

Turns up 61 results, and who wouldn't want to register sciati.ca or
eroti.ca (note that I haven't checked if these are registered).
mec.ca _is_ registered - to Mountain Equipment Co-op, a company many
of you are probably familiar with. Sadly (but unsurprisingly), both
antarcti.ca and repli.ca aren't available.

On Thu, 25 Jul 2024 at 09:44, Scott Allen <mlxxxp@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Thu, 25 Jul 2024 at 08:45, Giles Orr via talk <talk@gtalug.org> wrote:
> > What's the strangest one you've actually seen in use?
>
> Not strange or a weird TLD but I always notice the sites that use the
> TLD as the last letters of words they want to spell, instead of the
> intended purpose of the TLD, for example https://www.YouTu.be

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