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Whois query extension for Laravel (PHP 8.2+, Laravel 10–12, Carbon 3).
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mac-laravel-whois

Laravel package for WHOIS lookups and registrable-domain extraction (public suffix aware).

Supports: PHP 8.2+, Laravel 10 / 11 / 12, Carbon 3.

Installation

composer require mac-usa-one/mac-laravel-whois

The service provider and Whois facade are auto-discovered.

Usage

use MacUsaOne\Whois\Whois;

$info = Whois::lookup('example.com');
$raw  = Whois::lookupRaw('google.com');
$tld  = Whois::lookupInfo('example.com');
$domain = Whois::getDomain('www.example.com'); // example.com

Multi-level public suffix examples:

Whois::getDomain('www.example.co.uk');  // example.co.uk
Whois::getDomain('www.example.io.vn');  // example.io.vn
Whois::getDomain('macmar.us');          // macmar.us

You can also resolve MacUsaOne\Whois\WhoisQuery from the container (singleton).

lookup() return fields

Key Meaning
parser_type Parser type
name Domain name
registrar Registrar
owner Owner / registrant
whois_server WHOIS server
states Domain status codes
name_servers Name servers
dnssec DNSSEC
creation_date Carbon
expiration_date Carbon
updated_date Carbon
response_raw Raw WHOIS text

Returns null when the response cannot be parsed. Successful domain parsing does not guarantee a WHOIS server is available.

Public suffix list

resources/public_suffix_list.dat is sourced from publicsuffix.org.

At runtime the list is cached in memory (loaded once per process).

Testing

composer test
# or
vendor/bin/phpunit

Optional live network tests:

vendor/bin/phpunit --group integration

Changelog

See CHANGELOG.md.