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#Aug 15th, 2006 @ 1:23 AM
dotnetjunkie
dotnetjunkie

I'm in the process of moving a domain registration system over to ASP.NET 2.0

One of the pages has the traditional domain lookup: the user enters a domain and it is checked server-side against a few extensions for availability or status...

Well, this works, but as you can guess, the user experience is sub-optimal if you have to check a lot of extensions or if one of the whois servers responds slowly...

What technique would you use to improve the user experience?
One thought I had is doing the server-sides lookups in several threads?
Or dynamically update the page when new results come in? (is that possible?  would that require the use of ajax?)
Does anyone have a small example of something similar or code sample by any chance?

#Aug 15th, 2006 @ 12:01 PM
dotnetjunkie
dotnetjunkie

Stephen, that was the first link I found using a Google lookup. Smiley
I don't want to do that, I want to check the availability of different extensions.
This question is really about presenting server-side results that require lookups to other servers in a quick and user-friendly way.
I changed the topic title, because this does apply to more than whois lookups.
Moreover, ajaxwhois.com doesn't present any source code or sample scripts, and no articles about creating such a thing yourself, it's only a showcase of what's possible...
So if you know of a good code sample or article, please post it here!
Thanks!

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