diff --git a/whois/whois.py b/whois/whois.py
index deef59e..64a3691 100644
--- a/whois/whois.py
+++ b/whois/whois.py
@@ -146,30 +146,7 @@ def findwhois_server(buf, hostname, query):
         return nhost
 
     @staticmethod
-    def findwhois_iana(tld):
-        s = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_STREAM)
-        s.settimeout(10)
-        s.connect(("whois.iana.org", 43))
-        s.send(bytes(tld, "utf-8") + b"\r\n")
-        response = b""
-        while True:
-            d = s.recv(4096)
-            response += d
-            if not d:
-                break
-        s.close()
-        return re.search(r"whois:\s+(.*?)\n", response.decode("utf-8")).group(1)
-
-    def whois(self, query, hostname, flags, many_results=False, quiet=False, timeout=10):
-        """Perform initial lookup with TLD whois server
-        then, if the quick flag is false, search that result
-        for the region-specific whois server and do a lookup
-        there for contact details.  If `quiet` is `True`, will
-        not send a message to logger when a socket error
-        is encountered. Uses `timeout` as a number of seconds
-        to set as a timeout on the socket
-        """
-        response = b""
+    def get_socket():
         if "SOCKS" in os.environ:
             try:
                 import socks
@@ -197,6 +174,34 @@ def whois(self, query, hostname, flags, many_results=False, quiet=False, timeout
             )
         else:
             s = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_STREAM)
+        return s
+
+
+    def findwhois_iana(self, tld):
+        s = self.get_socket()
+        s.settimeout(10)
+        s.connect(("whois.iana.org", 43))
+        s.send(bytes(tld, "utf-8") + b"\r\n")
+        response = b""
+        while True:
+            d = s.recv(4096)
+            response += d
+            if not d:
+                break
+        s.close()
+        return re.search(r"whois:\s+(.*?)\n", response.decode("utf-8")).group(1)
+
+    def whois(self, query, hostname, flags, many_results=False, quiet=False, timeout=10):
+        """Perform initial lookup with TLD whois server
+        then, if the quick flag is false, search that result
+        for the region-specific whois server and do a lookup
+        there for contact details.  If `quiet` is `True`, will
+        not send a message to logger when a socket error
+        is encountered. Uses `timeout` as a number of seconds
+        to set as a timeout on the socket
+        """
+        response = b""
+        s = self.get_socket()
         s.settimeout(timeout)
         try:  # socket.connect in a try, in order to allow things like looping whois on different domains without
             # stopping on timeouts: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/25447803/python-socket-connection-exception