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ICANN Board Approves RDAP Amendments (To Replace WHOIS)
- jacooper 4y agoHopefully this wouldn't affect whoisprivacy
- colejohnson66 4y agoIt looks like it's mostly about making WHOIS data machine-readable and allowing it to support more information: https://about.rdap.org/ https://about.rdap.org/
- zinekeller 4y agoNo, there are no changes on that one, it's solely a technical change on how the registration data is delivered (switching from a freeform* ASCII-only bespoke protocol to an HTTP and JSON-based machine-readable Unicode-ready standard). * Although there's some unwritten standards on what data should be on an WHOIS, in practice it can be wildly different especially on ccTLDs and IP addresses.
- pabs3 4y agoRelated comment by CydeWeys: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35907769 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35907769 "Note that, because registries will be contractually mandated to support RDAP, and that if they choose to continue supporting WHOIS they will be subject to additional uptime/monitoring requirements on WHOIS that they wouldn't be if they simply dropped WHOIS, most are planning on dropping WHOIS as soon as possible."