domai name availbility checker

Question

actually i am looking for jquery and php script for checking domain name availability and whois.

like this example

http://davidwalsh.name/?s=WHOIS%20Domain%20Availability%20Checker

Thanks

Answer 1

I've never used those, but maybe the PEAR packages Net_Whois and/or Net_DNS could be helpful ?

Answer 2

Try phpwhois for getting whois data. It doesn't do it the ajax way, so you will have to write a simple page to make an ajax call as per your need.