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

[Mike Lyon via NANOG <nanog () lists nanog org>]

Curious, why retire Whois?

With the ever increasing ARIN rates, can y’all not afford to continue the service?

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.

How hard and expensive can it be to keep a whois webpage up and running?

-Mike

> On Aug 21, 2026, at 19:56, William Herrin via NANOG <nanog () lists nanog org> wrote:
>
> 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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