WHOIS is largely useless now because of Privacy Protection Services, Proxy Registrants and GDPR. The WHOIS protocol itself is more or less entirely shut down in

WHOIS is largely useless now because of Privacy Protection Services, Proxy Registrants and GDPR. The WHOIS protocol itself is more or less entirely shut down in favour of RDAP [1]. 1. https://www.icann.org/rdap https://www.icann.org/rdap