Re: Whois using these ARIN services?? (fwd: Consultation on the Future of ARIN???s Directory Services)

If they both reference the same underlying data maybe just leave rwhois
there but make it intentionally slower over time...

If they somehow don't reference the same underlying data, well, fix that
first by maybe just making rwhois a proxy to rdap?


On Sun, Aug 23, 2026 at 2:51 PM John R. Levine via NANOG <
[email protected]> wrote:

> >       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/
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