manual:
This example queries Network Solutions whois database:
<?
$domain = "arifbudiman.net";
if (trim($domain) <> "") {
$domain = trim($domain);
$fp = fsockopen("whois.networksolutions.com", 43, $errno, $errstr, 30);
if (!$fp) {
echo "$errstr ($errno)";
} else {
fputs($fp, "$domain\r\n");
print "<pre>\r\n";
while (!feof($fp)) {
echo fread($fp,128);
}
print "</pre>";
fclose ($fp);
}
}
?>