Whois запрос при помощи PHP

function whois_query($domain) {
 
// исправляем доменное имя:
  $domain = strtolower(trim($domain));
  $domain = preg_replace('/^http:\/\//i', '', $domain);
  $domain = preg_replace('/^www\./i', '', $domain);
  $domain = explode('/', $domain);
  $domain = trim($domain[0]);
 
$_domain = explode('.', $domain);
  $lst = count($_domain)-1;
  $ext = $_domain[$lst];
 
$servers = array(
  "biz" => "whois.neulevel.biz",
  "com" => "whois.internic.net",
  "us" => "whois.nic.us",
  "coop" => "whois.nic.coop",
  "info" => "whois.nic.info",
  "name" => "whois.nic.name",
  "net" => "whois.internic.net",
  "gov" => "whois.nic.gov",
  "edu" => "whois.internic.net",
  "mil" => "rs.internic.net",
  "int" => "whois.iana.org",
  "ac" => "whois.nic.ac",
  "ae" => "whois.uaenic.ae",
  "at" => "whois.ripe.net",
  "au" => "whois.aunic.net",
  "be" => "whois.dns.be",
  "bg" => "whois.ripe.net",
  "br" => "whois.registro.br",
  "bz" => "whois.belizenic.bz",
  "ca" => "whois.cira.ca",
  "cc" => "whois.nic.cc",
  "ch" => "whois.nic.ch",
  "cl" => "whois.nic.cl",
  "cn" => "whois.cnnic.net.cn",
  "cz" => "whois.nic.cz",
  "de" => "whois.nic.de",
  "fr" => "whois.nic.fr",
  "hu" => "whois.nic.hu",
  "ie" => "whois.domainregistry.ie",
  "il" => "whois.isoc.org.il",
  "in" => "whois.ncst.ernet.in",
  "ir" => "whois.nic.ir",
  "mc" => "whois.ripe.net",
  "to" => "whois.tonic.to",
  "tv" => "whois.tv",
  "ru" => "whois.ripn.net",
  "org" => "whois.pir.org",
  "aero" => "whois.information.aero",
  "nl" => "whois.domain-registry.nl"
  );
 
if (!isset($servers[$ext])){
  die('Error: No matching nic server found!');
  }
 
$nic_server = $servers[$ext];
 
$output = '';
 
  if ($conn = fsockopen ($nic_server, 43)) {
  fputs($conn, $domain."\r\n");
  while(!feof($conn)) {
  $output .= fgets($conn,128);
  }
  fclose($conn);
  }
  else { die('Error: Could not connect to ' . $nic_server . '!'); }
 
return $output;
}