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#141 Does the "$whois->deep_whois=false;" setting work?

v1.0 (example)
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nobody
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2021-12-22
2021-12-22
kadence0
No

The Readme says:

If you just want to know if a domain is registered or not but do not
care about getting the real owner information you can set:

$whois->deep_whois = false;

this will tell phpWhois to just query one whois server. For .com, .net
and .tv domains and ip addresses this will prevent phpWhois to ask more
than one whois server, you will just know if the donmain is registered
or not and which is the registrar but not the owner information.

However, when I do this, it seems to give the same result. Including the same returned PHP object, with 55 array objects. Does this fast lookup feature actually work?

Also, if I use this script at a high volume - say, in the tens of thousands per day - will I get into trouble with my host, or get blocked by the Whois servers?

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