OpenSRS Domain Search API

Provide a better, faster, more powerful domain search to your customers.

Choosing a domain name starts at the search box. Customers might have something in mind when they arrive at your website to buy a domain, but in many cases, they come to that search box armed only with a few keywords or an idea of what they are after.

OpenSRS has long recognized that the domain search box can be either a help or a hinderence for domain buyers. Optimizing your domain search experience beyond a simple availability check pays off in increased domain sales that form the foundation for sales of add-on products and services.

The OpenSRS Search API Difference

Access to the OpenSRS API is included free with every OpenSRS Reseller account.

Our search API technology provides way to turn a basic 'yes/no' domain lookup into a powerful keyword search-and-sell tool. It provides:

• Availability across multiple domain extensions
• Alternate suggestions based on the original search terms (including non-English suggestions)
• Suggestions for Premium Names (domains that are already registered, but offered for sale).

If the domain the customer wants is taken, the powerful OpenSRS search API provides a wide variety of relevant domain registrations options that will help your customer find the perfect domain name.

OpenSRS Search API Offers:

1. Greater speed:
   • Our search API takes a single call, parallelizes the individual lookup requests on the backend, and provides results back fast. The addition of cached zone files for the most popular global domain extensions provides even greater speed. A complete availability lookup across all of the domain extensions we offer is completed in just a few seconds.
2. More relevant suggestions:
   • The API, through our Name Suggestion Tool, provides multiple, highly relevant suggestions based on the search terms provided. It also offers suggestions in multiple languages (English, Spanish, Italian and German) by auto-detecting the language of the provided search terms. If your customer base is primarily using one of the supported languages, you can even choose to specify a language, or languages, during the search. The Name Suggestion Tool is provided free of charge to all Resellers.
3. More power and flexibility:
   • With the OpenSRS search API, a single API call can provide back a wide range of different search results: Simple domain availability for a single extension; a complete set of availability results for all the domain extensions we offer; a range of suggested alternative domain names; even Premium Domain name options from the domain name aftermarket. It's up to you what you want to offer your customers to help them find a perfect domain name.