Re: Whois using these ARIN services?? (fwd: Consultation on the Future of ARIN???s Directory Services)
"babydr DBA James W. Laferriere via NANOG" <[email protected]>
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Hello John , Are you the RDAP Sales Person , Because every word you have spoken about (r)whois & the proponent product have been exactly in the vien of trying to Sell ... My opinion , JimL On Sat, 22 Aug 2026, John R. Levine via NANOG wrote: >> 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. > > WHOIS is a very old protocol originally defined in RFC 812 in 1982 and > slightly updated by RFCs 954 and 3912. It is much older than the web and has > nothing to do with the web. There are web pages that fetch WHOIS info > (perhaps using RDAP) and display it, but that's something else. > >> How hard and expensive can it be to keep a whois webpage up and running? > > I don't know, but honestly, who cares. Here is a dandy RDAP client that runs > entirely in your browser. > > https://client.rdap.org/ > > R's, > John > > _______________________________________________ > NANOG mailing list > https://lists.nanog.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/MKXBWH5DAJWCANMKNSISX37ECBF4QREZ/ > -- +---------------------------------------------------------------------+ | James W. Laferriere | System Techniques | Give me VMS | | Network & System Engineer | 3237 Holden Road | Give me Linux | | [email protected] | Fairbanks, AK. 99709 | only on AXP | +---------------------------------------------------------------------+ _______________________________________________ NANOG mailing list https://lists.nanog.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/OHFJQH4KMNSPSGOPXI272DMTJLSPFJHH/