regru/php-whois

PHP class to retrieve WHOIS information.

php-whois (UNMAINTAINED)

PHP class to retrieve WHOIS information.

Example of usage

<?php

$sld = 'reg.ru';

$domain = new Phois\Whois\Whois($sld);

$whois_answer = $domain->info();

echo $whois_answer;

if ($domain->isAvailable()) {
    echo "Domain is available\n";
} else {
    echo "Domain is registered\n";
}

php-whois's Issues

Outsource the whois server list

Hi

I see that there are a handful of projects which do maintain their own individual whois server list. How about combining those lists into one single place and just maintain that together?

I created https://github.com/whois-server-list/whois-server-list where you can find a XML list containing domains (TLDs and SLD) with its whois servers from IANA, PSL and several whois client projects. The schema is not fix and could be changed within a new major version.

Also I'd like to use this opportunity to ask you if I may incorporate your list. I use the WTFL license.

.swiss

Can you please add .swiss to your json?
whois.nic.swiss

.ph

Hi,

Not work - HTTP 404.

Not work unicode domain name

Не проверят на регистрацию в рф и прочих не латинистических доменах.
президент.рф
xn--d1abbgf6aiiy.xn--p1ai

.cr ?

Add .cr domain check ?

.es not available due recaptcha

This Whois host has a ReCaptcha validation:

    "es": [
        "http:\/\/whois.virtualname.es\/whois.php?domain=",
        "LIBRE"
    ],

Problem in implementation

Hello,

Can you please tell me that how can I make use of this code? I mean I am completely noob, but I wanna get whois info of many domains at once.

So I found this.

What do I have to do now to get this working.

Sorry.

Thanks

Registrant, Admin & Tech data is empty

Hello. I just started using this class and it's pretty useful. However, I have noticed that it returns empty Registrant, Admin & Tech data. From what I gather, the solution is to make a second request to the registrar's WHOIS server in order to obtain it. For .com domains, this process would roughly look something like this:

Query whois.crsnic.net, find the "Registrar WHOIS Server" line in the received response and get the address of the said server (let's say it's whois.namecheap.com)

Query whois.namecheap.com

Parse & merge the data returned from the two servers as necessary and return it

A domain without any extension throws a fatal error

Fatal error on line 27:
throw new \InvalidArgumentException("Invalid $domain syntax");

You could introduce you to the version of the project?

It would be nice to enter the version according to the Semantic Versioning.
That depending specify a version number instead dev-master.

infinite loop

your class enters into infinite loop when fsockopen returns a error.

don't make two querys

if you use "$whois_string = $this->info();" inside the isAvailable() function you are querying the whois server two times.

(example on the first page)
$whois_answer = $domain->info(); //FIRST QUERY
...
if ($domain->isAvailable()) { //SECOND QUERY

Some whois servers have limits of 1 host from one ip each second (for instance).
So you should only ask only one time.
You can for instance save the domain info in a class variable and use it, if already exists

Need JSON format

Its not returning data in JSON format.
How can I get JSON formatted data?

If not then has there any other good php class like it what returns data in JSON format.

THanks

.de not returning data

I tried with any .de website and I don't get any data. I tried on other websites and they seem to work when I query a .de website.

add *.ir ccSLD domains

must be add second-level domain (ccSLD) for Iran country, below list:
co.ir
ac.ir
sch.ir
id.ir
gov.ir
org.ir
net.ir

Domain name can be shorter

Hi,

public function isValid()
    {
        if (
            isset($this->servers[$this->TLDs][0])
            && strlen($this->servers[$this->TLDs][0]) > 6
        ) {
            $tmp_domain = strtolower($this->subDomain);
            if (
                preg_match("/^[a-z0-9\-]{1,}$/", $tmp_domain)
                && !preg_match("/^-|-$/", $tmp_domain) //&& !preg_match("/--/", $tmp_domain)
            ) {
                return true;
            }
        }

        return false;
    }

like jd dot com, kk dot com p dot ki.

Thank you.

Кирилические домены с числами

Скрипт не обрабатывает кириллические домены с числами в начале домена. Например: 0404.xn--p1ai, 1500.xn--p1ai, 208777.xn--p1ai.
[18-Sep-2018 12:10:24 UTC] PHP Fatal error: Uncaught InvalidArgumentException: Invalid 0404.xn--p1ai syntax in /home/путь/Phois/Whois/Whois.php:29
Stack trace:
#0 /home/путь_к_скрипту.php(54): Phois\Whois\Whois->__construct('0404.xn--p1ai')
#1 {main}
thrown in /home/путь/Phois/Whois/Whois.php on line 29

3rd level domain with numbers at 2nd level = "invalid $domain syntax"

Due to regexp here https://github.com/regru/php-whois/blob/master/src/Phois/Whois/Whois.php#L23

• example.com -> passed
• m.example3000.com -> invalid $domain syntax

Here is online demonstration https://3v4l.org/KdAMn

Why there are no numbers allowed in 2nd level domain?

co.jp update

whois.jprs.jp

method isAvailable() returns TRUE when extension doesn't exist

Example:
thisdomain.doesnotexistatall
$domain->isAvailable() returns TRUE

When the domain have `On-hold (generic)` status, then `isAvailable()` method returns TRUE !

When the domain have On-hold (generic) status, then isAvailable() method returns TRUE !

.ac.ir

.ir tld is defined in this script but i can not whois 'kashanu.ac.ir'!
please check it

To single out one record, look it up with "xxx"

When I use your script to search for Google.com or any popular domain, it's just listing a bunch of domains that contain that domain in it. It also has the following message:

To single out one record, look it up with "xxx", where xxx is one of the
records displayed above. If the records are the same, look them up

with "=xxx" to receive a full display for each record.

What needs to be done for it to actually get the whois results for any domain that's entered?

whois.registrypro.pro Connection timed out

PHP Warning: fsockopen(): unable to connect to whois.registrypro.pro:43 (Connection timed out) in /Phois/Whois/Whois.php on line 51

bestchiflatironsale.com - determined as avilable incorrectly

'bestchiflatironsale.com' - incorrectly determind as AVAILABLE.

.biz always shows unavailable

searching for a .biz-Domain always shows this domain unavailable.
It seems that the whois.servers.json has to have "No Data Found" as Failstring.

Fatal error: Class 'Phois\Whois\Whois' not found

i clone it here:
/home/mrg/www/Test/php-whois

then run:
http://localhost/Test/php-whois/examples/usage-example.php
And get this error:

Fatal error: Class 'Phois\Whois\Whois' not found in /home/mrg/www/Test/php-whois/examples/usage-example.php on line 8

My os is linux mint 17.3 64bit
PHP Version 5.5.9-1ubuntu4.14
Aapache 2.4

getting specific data

how can i get specific data from returning value? for example i want to get only creation date. Is it possible to do this?

.ir

thanks for your class but why dont you add .ir??
please add it.
whois server : whois.nic.ir

*.mil tld wrong whois server

In whois servers "mil" tld contains "whois.internic.net".

According to response from "whois.internic.net": The Registry database contains ONLY .COM, .NET, .EDU domains and Registrars.

Wrongly resolved as available domain as example: "usmc.mil".

Formating

If you want a quick way to format the return results

echo nl2br($whois_answer);

will convert line breaks to html breaks. Makes it easier to read :)

Using guzzle instead of CURL

Hi,
I think the main API request function should be updated to use guzzle instead of directly going for curl!
Advantages:
It's much more modern and easier to debug
Code would be cleaner
We can use guzzle async features to make asynchronous requests:
This is important because most people use this library for checking domain availability and if you target multiple TLD's many serial requests would have to be made and the script would get really slow.
Thanks

Missing .uk domains

The json has .co.uk domains but misses .uk domains
More info: http://www.nominet.org.uk/uk-domain-names/about-domain-names/domain-lookup-whois/whois-tool