Re: Whois using these ARIN services?? (fwd: Consultation on the Future of ARIN???s Directory Services)
Mike Lyon via NANOG <[email protected]>
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Curious, why retire Whois? With the ever increasing ARIN rates, can y’all not afford to continue the service? As it stands now, every time i use the whois web client (couple times a week), it never loads the first time (on any device and on any network i’m on) and i have to reload the page. How hard and expensive can it be to keep a whois webpage up and running? -Mike > On Aug 21, 2026, at 19:56, William Herrin via NANOG <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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/ _______________________________________________ NANOG mailing list https://lists.nanog.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/LP7XNYZTHVTZKBBBJT6BQFH52IBCO5DQ/