{"id":14387,"date":"2024-03-15T09:00:56","date_gmt":"2024-03-15T09:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.silicloud.com\/blog\/how-can-we-retrieve-the-domain-name-in-golang\/"},"modified":"2025-08-06T08:04:32","modified_gmt":"2025-08-06T08:04:32","slug":"how-can-we-retrieve-the-domain-name-in-golang","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.silicloud.com\/blog\/how-can-we-retrieve-the-domain-name-in-golang\/","title":{"rendered":"Get Domain Name in Go: Quick Tutorial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In Golang, you can use the net package to obtain domain names. Specifically, you can use the net.LookupHost() function, which takes a parameter &#8211; the domain name to be queried &#8211; and returns a slice of strings containing the list of IP addresses corresponding to that domain.<\/p>\n<p>Here is an example code:<\/p>\n<pre class=\"post-pre\"><code><span class=\"hljs-keyword\">package<\/span> main\r\n\r\n<span class=\"hljs-keyword\">import<\/span> (\r\n\t<span class=\"hljs-string\">\"fmt\"<\/span>\r\n\t<span class=\"hljs-string\">\"net\"<\/span>\r\n)\r\n\r\n<span class=\"hljs-function\"><span class=\"hljs-keyword\">func<\/span> <span class=\"hljs-title\">main<\/span><span class=\"hljs-params\">()<\/span><\/span> {\r\n\tdomain := <span class=\"hljs-string\">\"example.com\"<\/span>\r\n\tips, err := net.LookupHost(domain)\r\n\t<span class=\"hljs-keyword\">if<\/span> err != <span class=\"hljs-literal\">nil<\/span> {\r\n\t\tfmt.Println(<span class=\"hljs-string\">\"Failed to lookup domain:\"<\/span>, err)\r\n\t\t<span class=\"hljs-keyword\">return<\/span>\r\n\t}\r\n\tfmt.Println(<span class=\"hljs-string\">\"IP addresses for\"<\/span>, domain, <span class=\"hljs-string\">\":\"<\/span>)\r\n\t<span class=\"hljs-keyword\">for<\/span> _, ip := <span class=\"hljs-keyword\">range<\/span> ips {\r\n\t\tfmt.Println(ip)\r\n\t}\r\n}\r\n<\/code><\/pre>\n<p>Running the above code will output a list of IP addresses corresponding to the domain name. Note that this example code will use the default DNS server for domain resolution. If you need to use a specific DNS server, you can use the net.Resolver type for more advanced domain resolution operations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Golang, you can use the net package to obtain domain names. Specifically, you can use the net.LookupHost() function, which takes a parameter &#8211; the domain name to be queried &#8211; and returns a slice of strings containing the list of IP addresses corresponding to that domain. 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