Jan Schaumann on Nostr: I've previously[1] talked about how stupid #WHOIS is, and while #RDAP is an ...
I've previously[1] talked about how stupid #WHOIS is, and while #RDAP is an improvement, it's still really just a bunch of information bits based on (regional) convention.
A human can usually quickly identify e.g., the owning legal entity from inspection of of the data, but good luck doing that programmatically. It's infuriating.
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https://www.netmeister.org/blog/whois.htmlPublished at
2023-10-01 19:06:52Event JSON
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