I would have thought at least ONE person on here would have found it useful!

The problem with that script is you are smashing their servers with a hammer to get the information you want (DDoS attack-worthy).

You aren't respecting their robots.txt file, and your not waiting any time between scrapes. This is very poor manners, and can get your ip banned, your isp contacted, and your very own federal charges depending on how many people run this script at the same time.

Otherwise, I do like how short and neat it is, though I might suggest adding some backup calls to some other whois systems in case internic goes down (or when they ban your ip)