If they both reference the same underlying data maybe just leave rwhois there but make it intentionally slower over time...
That seems awfully passive aggressive. For domains, ICANN set a timeline and after a little bit of grumbling, we adapted. I did it, it wasn't hard. While I was at it I switched the IP and ASN lookups to RDAP too.
If they somehow don't reference the same underlying data, well, fix that first by maybe just making rwhois a proxy to rdap?
It occurs to me that if people REALLY REALLY want WHOIS, it would not be terribly hard to write a proxy that puts a WHOIS front end on RDAP servers. Here's one that goes the other way: https://github.com/redirect2me/rdap-proxy R's, John
On Sun, Aug 23, 2026 at 2:51 PM John R. Levine via NANOG < nanog@lists.nanog.org> 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.