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Whois services are extremely useful to get basic information about a domain name: owner, creation date, registrar, etc. Using PHP and the whois unix command, it is extremely easy to create a basic whois PHP function. Please note that the whois unix command must be installed on your server for this code to work.

$domains = array('home.pl', 'w3c.org');

function creation_date($domain) {
    $lines = explode("\n", `whois $domain`);
    foreach($lines as $line) {
        if(strpos(strtolower($line), 'created') !== false) {
            return $line;
        }
    }

    return false;
}

foreach($domains as $d) {
    echo creation_date($d) . "\n";
}