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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> 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 ... I get a 50% commission on every RDAP sale! Wow! Too bad it's free. But it really does work better than WHOIS. R's, John > 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/ _______________________________________________ NANOG mailing list https://lists.nanog.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/VXPEE5FZQJC5SJYBF73U2V52UUO7GZJX/