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

John R. Levine via NANOG wrote on 23/08/2026 23:22:

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.

Or even simpler: $ brew install rdap $ echo alias whois rdap >> ~/.bashrc $ . ~/.bashrc As a benefit of this, you'll even get parsable yaml (or json / xml if you want that instead), instead of the unstructured mess you get with whois. Nick