Preventing Certain Words in a domain name for placing an order

[artaweb]

Hello,

I've been looking to find a hook or a module in order to prevent domain names that contains a certain word for placing a hosting order.

Let's say, if the domain name is thexxl.com and if I restricted the word xxl, user get notified that the entered domain name cannot be used.

I would appreciate your insight on this.

thank you

[WHMCS Alex]

Hello @artaweb,

A member of our team Josh made a post regarding blocking subdomains being used as existing domain names, using the ClientAreaFooterOutput hook and some client-side JavaScript https://developers.whmcs.com/hooks-reference/output/#clientareafooteroutput

You can read this here:

You could adapt this example to achieve what you desire here.

I hope this helps.

[artaweb]

Thanks for the update,

Tried a few tweaks but this is far from my knowledge and capabilities. 

[artaweb]

@WHMCS Josh

Maybe you could have a look at this?

[sahostking]

did anyone solve this. We would like to stop customers registering domains with gov or doh in it completely as they are being used for fraudelent activities

[Linuxweb]

I do apologize ahead of time for reviving this post, however even now in 2023 is it valid and have been desperately trying to achieve this functionality.

I have succeeded with the following code snippet for a hook

<?php
 if (!defined('WHMCS'))
     die('You cannot access this file directly.');

add_hook('ShoppingCartValidateDomain', 1, function($vars) {
	$restricted_words = array("comma seperated keywords");
	foreach ($restricted_words as $banned) {
		if (strpos($vars['sld'], $banned) !== false) {
			return ["Hmm, we have a problem. ".$vars['sld'].$vars['tld']." is a restricted domain name and is not allowed on our network."];
		}
	}
});

This same concept can also be used to filter out TLD's by replace sld with tld

What I have not succeeded in doing is filter out the suggested names that will appear below the search block, for this I just deactivated the search feature in the domain lookup provider. So my site does not suggest other tld's for registration. Its a small price to pay.

I hope it helps someone

Edited May 25, 2023 by Linuxweb