discuss WHOIS Bye Bye?

[Igor Mironyuk]

I'm confused... I check WHOIS via DomainTools and in the right upper corner of the page saw this:

What will be instead WHOIS?

 

[marm]

If you click more info..

WHOIS is being replaced by RDAP, or Registration Data Access Protocol. https://www.icann.org/rdap

 

[Igor Mironyuk]

If you click more info..Show attachment 269215

WHOIS is being replaced by RDAP, or Registration Data Access Protocol. https://www.icann.org/rdap

I read this. But I mean also this protocol will be public that anyone can see contact details of registrants?

 

[alcy]

or maybe
domain tools
bye bye

 

[Igor Mironyuk]

or maybe
domain tools
bye bye

For Whois.com this change will be catastrophic.

 

[Kyle Tully]

Latest episode of DNW podcast talks about this in interview with guy from Domain Tools if you want more info.

 

[Kyle Tully]

I read this. But I mean also this protocol will be public that anyone can see contact details of registrants?

No. The "A" stands for access and I'm guessing determines what level of user can access what info.

 

[Altetra]

What is this RDAP will it be accessible like WHOIS or it is more restricted for general public?

 

[ARCCLOUD]

What is this RDAP will it be accessible like WHOIS or it is more restricted for general public?

https://client.rdap.org/

 

[jmcc]

Some data will be private under RDAP and it is possible to request it if there is a good reason to do so. Some ICANN registrars are continuing to run WHOIS services along with RDAP. Eventually, WHOIS will be dropped.

What happened with WHOIS has been an unmitigated clusterfsck. There was a lot of pressure to restrict data and the GDPR regulations didn't help. A lot of registrars took that as an opportunity to put as much as possible behind a redaction notice. It may impact some websites providing WHOIS data. There is software that can be used for RDAP lookups and RDAP is very well documented. The WHOIS service didn't allowed tiered access (some people having access to more data (Law Enforcement Agencies etc). RDAP does.

Regards...jmcc