SCRIPTABLE WHOIS Queryer

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<?
        $vowelArray = array('a','e','i','o','u');

        $base = $argv[1];

        if($base == "help") { echo "base start end [v|d]\n v = vowels only, d = debug mode"; }
        if($base == "debug") { print_r($argv); print_r($vowelArray); }
        $start = $argv[2];
        $end = $argv[3];
        $arg = '';
        $arg = @$argv[4];

        if($arg == "v") {
                $start=0;
                $end=count($vowelArray);
        }

        for($i=$start;$i<$end;$i++) {
                if($arg == 'd') { echo $i . " of " . $end . "\n"; }
                $use = $i;
                if($arg=="v") {
                        $use = $vowelArray[$i];
                }
                $query = str_replace("*", $use, $base);
                echo "---- $query ---- \n";
                ob_start();
                        system("whois " . $query);
                $content = ob_get_contents();
                ob_end_clean();
                if(stristr($content, "no match")) {
                        echo "\tNo match found for " . $query . "\n";
                } else {
                        echo "\tMatch found for " . $query . "\n";
                }
        }
?>

Automated WHOIS querier, scriptable. Use it like this:

php -q p-whois.php d*main.com a z

That will outpit the status of

damain.com
dbmain.com
dcmain.com
...
dzmain.com

Note, automated whois querying is against the rules of most databases, you may have to configure the system() line to use your own whois db, rather than whatever whois chooses.

Note, will only work on Linux systems, or systems supporting the 'whois' command at the commandline.

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