gimme

gimme

Cut through the cruft of whois.

Simple command line utility that takes a name and shows domain and twitter availability.

Requires node.js and npm. Uses twitter.com and instantdomainsearch.com for data.

Installation:

$ npm install -g gimme

Usage:

$ gimme example

or with an extension:

$ gimme example.com

Outputs:

 NO  example.com
 NO  example.net
 NO  example.org
 NO  example.biz
 NO  example.mobi
 NO  twitter.com/example

(your name might have better luck.)