Overview

Creating a website can be an important moment for a person or business. Whilst checking for domain availability are quite ubiquitous, there are no tools currently to my knowledge whereby a person can simultaneously search for events on a given date as well. This program changes that.

There are situations where a person or business may deliberately want to register a domain on a given date. For example, a business that is strongly "pro-American" may want to set up their domain on July 4th, to indicate their patriotism, and this date would appear in records such as WHOIS. Similar things can be said for other dates, such as perhaps a country's date of independence, a royal wedding or a day in which a national tragedy has occurred.

Technology

This program was built in Java. It uses the Swing interface as its GUI. The APIs used are from Name.com as well as Wikimedia, the parent organisation of Wikipedia, which helpfully provides the important events that have occurred on a given date. In the video submission, I randomly chose the date December 1st, and coincidentally it just so happened that the Arsenal Women's team had broken a record; me being an Arsenal supporter, were I to set up a website, I would be more inclined to do it on that date.

AI Disclosure

This project was made with Claude Opus 4.6 via AWS Bedrock and the thumbnail was made with Google Gemini. However, significant amendments had to be made the code. One area that had to be amended was Claude's use of Name.com's v4 API, which is now legacy and has some issues. Claude also spat out some errors with classes and other things.

Built With

• name.com
• wikimedia