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Re:Evolution of Whois Protocol to RDAP (2019) by xiconfjs on Thursday February 13, 2025 @11:10AM (#43037401)
The big problem there is no easy and consistent way to query RDAP because there are no clients in Debian or Ubuntu. There is one in the experimental stage [1] in Debian, so perhaps in Debian 14?

And yes, I know, there are Perl-Apps [2], Go-Apps [3] and so on which can be installed within minutes. But this extra step (including debugging which happens when compiling/installing from source) isn't going to help RDAP to get traction.

[1] https://packages.debian.org/experimental/rdap [2] https://metacpan.org/pod/App::rdapper [3] https://github.com/openrdap/rdap

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Re:Evolution of Whois Protocol to RDAP (2019) by elp on Thursday February 13, 2025 @12:08PM (#43038324)
The new icann directive is that they suggest we shutdown whois. So in theory at least there will be only RDAP. I'm guessing all the distros will add something soon.

On the other hand my employer and I imagine most other registries are not planning to shut off whois. Actual people in the real world still use it.

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