I wanted to add WHOIS lookup capability to a recent project I was working on. I had never had a reason to implement a WHOIS lookup system before so I went in search of a simple system to lookup WHOIS records and then I would simply display the raw data.

I came across quite a few suggestions of scripts to do this, but I wanted to find something clean and logical. I ended up with the following code after modifying an existing script to suit my needs:
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