RE: [PHP] Don't search for domains on Network Solutions...

> -----Original Message----- > From: Daniel Brown [mailto:parasane@gmail.com] > Sent: Wednesday, January 16, 2008 5:06 PM > To: Eric Butera > Cc: Andrés Robinet; php php > Subject: Re: [PHP] Don't search for domains on Network Solutions... > > On Jan 16, 2008 2:29 PM, Eric Butera <eric.butera@gmail.com> wrote: > > It obviously isn't related to PHP. I figured that most of us are in > > the business of making web applications for clients that are accessed > > through a domain at some point, so I sent it as a general warning to > > people. > > > > My company has recommended people to use it as a simple starting > point > > of figuring out what domain name they think they might like. Of > > course we never use them for anything other than that, but I guess > the > > joke is on us in the end, right? :) > > Eric, > > If you're using a *nix system, try this. I just whipped it up > now, so it's not going to be perfect, but it will give accurate > results, without risking any kind of "domain hoarding" (which is > ridiculous, and companies should be fined for it, in my opinion): > > <? > > if(!isset($argv[1])) { > die("Usage: ".$argv[0]." domain.com\n"); > } > > $domain = $argv[1]; > > exec('which dig '.$domain,$ret,$err); > > if($err) { > die("ERROR: ".$err."\n"); > } > > for($i=0;$i<count($ret);$i++) { > if(preg_match('/status: (.*),/Ui',$ret[$i],$status)) { > switch($status[1]) { > case "NXDOMAIN": > echo "Domain is not registered.\n"; > break; > case "NOERROR": > echo "Domain is registered.\n"; > break; > default: > echo "Unknown status.\n"; > break; > } > } > } > ?> > > > -- > </Dan> > > Daniel P. Brown > Senior Unix Geek and #1 Rated "Year's Coolest Guy" By Self Since > Nineteen-Seventy-[mumble]. > Maybe one of these classes will do the trick if you have exec disabled (like in most of the shared hosting enviroments), anybody tried them? http://www.phpclasses.org/searchtag/whois/by/package/tag/whois/ Regards, Rob