Script to do a WHOIS for Dutch .nl domains from the terminal

whoisnl

#!/usr/bin/php
<?php

$domain = $argv[1];
if (!$domain) die("No domain given \n");

$domain = trim($domain);
$domain = str_replace(".nl", "", $domain);

$data = file_get_contents("https://www.sidn.nl/index.php?eID=tx_sidnwhois_pi1&domain=$domain&reg=44&det=0&lang=nl&check=true&adv=1&regmode=0");

if (!$data) die("Could not get data \n");

$data = strip_tags($data);
$data = str_replace(array("&nbsp;"), "", $data);
$data = preg_replace("/(^[\r\n]*|[\r\n]+)[\s\t]*[\r\n]+/", "\n\n", $data);
$data = substr($data, 0, strpos($data, "Auteursrechtvoorbehoud"));

echo trim($data) . "\n";

To install simply copy to a file called 'whoisnl', make it executable ('chmod u+x whoisnl') and use it:

whoisnl google.nl