What is the best script to query about a domain name and get all the info about it?

[Bijan]

Hi
I'm looking for the best way to query a domain and find all the information available about it. I have this script that I got from the php mans and can query the Network solutions whois database, but it doesn't give much information, like the name of the registrar and also his/her country.

Here's the script:

<?
$domain = "arifbudiman.net";
if (trim($domain) <> "") {
  $domain = trim($domain);
  $fp = fsockopen("whois.networksolutions.com", 43, $errno, $errstr, 30);
  if (!$fp) {
     echo "$errstr ($errno)";
  } else {
     fputs($fp, "$domain\r\n");
     print "<pre>\r\n";
     while (!feof($fp)) {
        echo fread($fp,128);
     }
     print "</pre>";
     fclose ($fp);
  }
}
?>
// Courtesy of [email][e-mail][/email]se

But if you go to register.com, you see a real better explanation of the domains and also some suggestions for similar domains that are not taken if your desired name is taken.
I'm simply looking for the best way to do this and any help/suggestion on this would be appericiated.

[cgraz]

Take a look at this. Just came across it today.

http://www.devshed.com/Server_Side/PHP/whois/page1.html

Cgraz

[Bijan]

Thanx for the help, it's really cool! I think I'm gonna help them put the .ir ccTLD in their program.

[Bijan]

Hi cgraz, how're ya? sorry, I know that this is a real dummy question, but I got their files and I see that it's extension is "whois" and even in the "main.whois" they included another file with the .whois extension, so, should I keep the extension? Shouldn't I change it to .php? How could it work with this extension?!

[amcgrath]

you can include a file with any extension, it doesn't matter: php will see it as (potentially) code. For instance, I use .inc for include files, .qry for any database queries I might bring, etc.

amc