On Jan 16, 2008 4:27 PM, Andrés Robinet <agrobinet@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Daniel Brown [mailto:parasane@xxxxxxxxx] > > Sent: Wednesday, January 16, 2008 5:06 PM > > To: Eric Butera > > Cc: Andrés Robinet; php php > > Subject: Re: Don't search for domains on Network Solutions... > > > > On Jan 16, 2008 2:29 PM, Eric Butera <eric.butera@xxxxxxxxx> 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 > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > His program was for CLI. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
