Script to check .io domains to see if they're being used for anything... Works through a word list, checks to see if it's just being redirected or not, then if not, prints out the domain and title of the page (which could give a clue to what it's used for).

check_active_io.py

# works on my machine... OS X 10.8.2, Python v2.7.3
# use the wordlist here: https://gist.github.com/russellbeattie/4982393#file-words-txt

import sys
import subprocess
import re
import urllib2

wordlist = 'words.txt'

if len(sys.argv) > 1:
  wordlist = sys.argv[1]

for line in open(wordlist, 'r'):
    domain = line.strip() + '.io'
    out = subprocess.check_output(['whois', domain])
    
    if 'Not' in out:
		
		url = 'http://' + domain

		try:
			usock = urllib2.urlopen(url, timeout=5)
		except:
			continue
		
		data = usock.read()
		newurl = usock.geturl()

		usock.close()
		
		if domain in newurl:

			try:
				title = re.search('<title>(.*)</title>', data, re.IGNORECASE).group(1)
		
				print domain + ' - ' + newurl + ' - ' + title
			
			except:
				pass