WHOIS is dead (3.Viewing)

It’s official.

Starting today, Whois is no longer the definitive source of domain name ownership data. It’s now the Registration Data Access Protocol (RDAP).

This won’t mean much to most internet users seeking information about domain name owners. RDAP has much of the same information that Whois does (and most ownership data is obscured by privacy services).

Read more: WHOIS is dead - Domain Name Wire | Domain Name News

RDAP can be accessed on ICANN’s website.

Very interesting the difference when I typed in Waterloo.com and Red.ca

On the .CA is highlights in red all the information that is redacted, it does not do that on the .com

I wonder if this has anything to do with how the CIRA whois is behaving lately?

Posted the other day by Rick

He has strong opinions about any form of domain privacy


Be interesting to see what the new system looks like on a domain without privacy.