How to determine web urls with certain letter combos

[RockyMaivia]

Weird question I know, but is there a way to determine what urls out there have a certain combination of characters in it? Perhaps some software package or search mechanism?

 

[Superwormy]

Not sure I understand what you mean... do you mean like given this:

www.anandtech.com
www.teamanandtech.com
www.2cpu.com

Find out which of those 3 have the word ' anand ' in them?
Or which have the word ' team' and the word 'tech' in them?


If you had a list of domainnames ( I have a list of about 2500 available if you'd like ) you could do this with regular expressions in PHP, C, Perl... etc. almost any programming language...

 

[RockyMaivia]

For example, which one of the urls below as the word anand in it. Is there some sort of way to download domain names or to access a domain directory?

Originally posted by: Superwormy
Not sure I understand what you mean... do you mean like given this:

www.anandtech.com
www.teamanandtech.com
www.2cpu.com

Find out which of those 3 have the word ' anand ' in them?
Or which have the word ' team' and the word 'tech' in them?


If you had a list of domainnames ( I have a list of about 2500 available if you'd like ) you could do this with regular expressions in PHP, C, Perl... etc. almost any programming language...

 

[Superwormy]

Do you know PHP at all? Or any programming language? Cause any programming language should be able to do that very simply...

www.php.net/stristr

Theres really no way to download a list of domainnames that I've found, not without paying $$$ at least. I have a list of around 2,500 domain names that I coudl give you if you want, or if its a simple search I'd be glad to do it for you. What are you trying to accomplish?

 

[CTho9305]

i dont understand what you want.... maybe go here and search for the word. you could probably write a program to parse that page...

edit: fixed link

 

[RockyMaivia]

I'm sorry I wasn't able to pose the question properly. But I found my solution. Take the word "pillow" for example. I wanted to find out all the domains that had this word in it. The whois command limits the number of returns you can get. I went to whois.org, and that helped quite a bit. It had a limit at 2001. Thanks all for taking a crack at it. Sorry again for any confusion.

 

[CTho9305]

Originally posted by: RockyMaivia
I'm sorry I wasn't able to pose the question properly. But I found my solution. Take the word "pillow" for example. I wanted to find out all the domains that had this word in it. The whois command limits the number of returns you can get. I went to whois.org, and that helped quite a bit. It had a limit at 2001. Thanks all for taking a crack at it. Sorry again for any confusion.

netcraft.com will do that for you.