Re: Whois using these ARIN services?? (fwd: Consultation on the Future of ARIN???s Directory Services)
"John R. Levine via NANOG" <[email protected]>
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On Fri, 21 Aug 2026, William Herrin wrote: > 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. It depends on the registry. Verisign and PIR which run com, net, and org, still have whois, Identity Digital which runs .info and a lot of other smaller domains doesn't. > Maybe there's a disconnect between announcement and practice here? And > the lack of outcry is because pragmatically speaking whois still > works? No, it's because people who do domain WHOIS have seen the news from ICANN and done the small amount of work to move to RDAP. Re Randy's comment, a lot of info is redacted but again it depends on the registrar. Everyone still provides registration and expiration dates and a link to the registrar, some registrars provide a lot more. Look for example at GURUS.COM which I sold about 30 years ago and has been baouncing around among speculators ever since. R's, John _______________________________________________ NANOG mailing list https://lists.nanog.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/KOL6YDKQYIB4CIXXBUBKCZVW2QULATTT/