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This tool connects directly to the official WHOIS server for each domain's registry (the same servers registrars query) and asks whether the name is registered - the same real-time lookup you'd get by using the whois command yourself.
If a WHOIS server can't be reached (some web hosts block the WHOIS port, 43, by firewall), the tool falls back to checking whether the domain has any DNS records - a domain with no DNS presence is often, but not always, unregistered, so this fallback result is labeled "likely" rather than confirmed.
Because domain registration changes constantly, always do a final check directly with a registrar before completing a purchase.