Kennisbank

Check website name or domain availability on the internet. When you call this method, you must understand that you must have credit enough to buy the checked website name or domain. One name or domain can be checked per API call.

Request Parameters

Response Parameters

Example Request (CURL)

<?php
//Invalid Payment Method. Valid options include pai,banktransfer,metamaskusdterc20,paypal,payfast
$apiUrl = 'https://sive.host/includes/sivehost-api.php'; // Change to your API endpoint
$username = 'Ikhaka'; // Your API username
$password = 'Mph#th9mi$'; // Your API password

$postfields = array(
    'api_key' => 'G2dskdXb7BlDwlvbrD1zVEe5ZKQIybXn', // If needed
    'api_secret' => 'CtIJVZf8OM1p4iLxwiKFjlU4bPVmEycS', // If needed    
    'action' => 'NameCheck',
    'domain' => 'almaSiveHost.co.za',
);

$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $apiUrl);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, http_build_query($postfields));
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPAUTH, CURLAUTH_BASIC);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERPWD, "$username:$password"); // Basic Authentication
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, false); // Use true in production with a valid SSL

$response = curl_exec($ch);

// Check for cURL errors
if (curl_errno($ch)) {
    echo 'cURL Error: ' . curl_error($ch);
}
    
curl_close($ch);

// Output response
echo $response;
?>

Example Response JSON

{
    "result": "success",
    "status": "available",
    "whois": "nnn"
}

Error Responses

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