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

[William Herrin via NANOG <nanog () lists nanog org>]

On Fri, Aug 21, 2026 at 6:42 PM John Levine via NANOG
<nanog () lists nanog org> 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
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