Whois query using PHP

<?php function whois_query($domain) { // fix the domain name: $domain = strtolower(trim($domain)); $domain = preg_replace('/^http:\/\//i', '', $domain); $domain = preg_replace('/^www\./i', '', $domain); $domain = explode('/', $domain); $domain = trim($domain[0]); // split the TLD from domain name $_domain = explode('.', $domain); $lst = count($_domain)-1; $ext = $_domain[$lst]; // You find resources and lists // like these on wikipedia: // // http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whois // $servers = array( "biz" => "whois.neulevel.biz", "com" => "whois.internic.net", "us" => "whois.nic.us", "coop" => "whois.nic.coop", "info" => "whois.nic.info", "name" => "whois.nic.name", "net" => "whois.internic.net", "gov" => "whois.nic.gov", "edu" => "whois.internic.net", "mil" => "rs.internic.net", "int" => "whois.iana.org", "ac" => "whois.nic.ac", "ae" => "whois.uaenic.ae", "at" => "whois.ripe.net", "au" => "whois.aunic.net", "be" => "whois.dns.be", "bg" => "whois.ripe.net", "br" => "whois.registro.br", "bz" => "whois.belizenic.bz", "ca" => "whois.cira.ca", "cc" => "whois.nic.cc", "ch" => "whois.nic.ch", "cl" => "whois.nic.cl", "cn" => "whois.cnnic.net.cn", "cz" => "whois.nic.cz", "de" => "whois.nic.de", "fr" => "whois.nic.fr", "hu" => "whois.nic.hu", "ie" => "whois.domainregistry.ie", "il" => "whois.isoc.org.il", "in" => "whois.ncst.ernet.in", "ir" => "whois.nic.ir", "mc" => "whois.ripe.net", "to" => "whois.tonic.to", "tv" => "whois.tv", "ru" => "whois.ripn.net", "org" => "whois.pir.org", "aero" => "whois.information.aero", "nl" => "whois.domain-registry.nl" ); if (!isset($servers[$ext])){ die('Error: No matching nic server found!'); } $nic_server = $servers[$ext]; $output = ''; // connect to whois server: if ($conn = fsockopen ($nic_server, 43)) { fputs($conn, $domain."\r\n"); while(!feof($conn)) { $output .= fgets($conn,128); } fclose($conn); } else { die('Error: Could not connect to ' . $nic_server . '!'); } return $output; }