Re: Whois using these ARIN services?? (fwd: Consultation on the Future of ARIN???s Directory Services)
William Herrin via NANOG <[email protected]>
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On Fri, Aug 21, 2026 at 6:42 PM John Levine via NANOG <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm scratching my head. Is it really the case that nobody here has been using > WHOIS to look up domain name info? Because that ship sailed years ago. ICANN > mandated RDAP with about a two-year transition period which was over last year. > If you want to get (what remains of) info about domains, you have to use RDAP, > with a little bit of WHOIS left for some country code TLDs. I just did a "whois" on my own domains and found it still working. And I checked under the hood - the client isn't using RDAP. Maybe there's a disconnect between announcement and practice here? And the lack of outcry is because pragmatically speaking whois still works? Regards, Bill Herrin _______________________________________________ NANOG mailing list https://lists.nanog.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/3O227WEG3XJB57JPXSA5VNSBOMEWFRCX/