Whois client

This Whois Client is a complete API class, allowing you to connect to an appropriate whois server and return information relating to a specific domain name.

The client runs alongside a servers.whois file, which lists every whois server that is operating.

For the case of .com, .org, .net domains, the client will connect to the default whois server. If they do not host the domain records, the client will then connect to the suggested server.

Whois Client API

Developer Comments

Tom Rudderham
Unfortunately whois servers do not offer a simple yes/no answer for whether a domain is registered or not.

John
A regular expression could be included in an additional method that searches for strings in the output that is similar to 'no match' or 'not found' and have the method return true or false accordingly so there is a simple yes/no answer to whether a domain is registered or not.