on Thu, Nov 21, 2024 at 11:09:56AM -0500, Bill Cole via mailop wrote: > Whois data is irregular, poorly-maintained, and often wrong. The various > 'whois' clients offer differing UIs and capabilities. Whois servers provide > responses in ungoverned formats.
Agreed. And increasingly cloaked, rate-limited, or just useless (try looking up any domain in a Centurylink legacy block, for example). > You can get a better view of that data by using RDAP, which provides more > rigorous formatting and uniform queries. The reference client is the > "nicinfo" ruby gem. On Ubuntu there's a client called 'rdap' that's pretty great but doesn't always know where to look for its info (I find .br domains especially difficult to find information for, and end up using whois.com, which is pretty decent but a web site not a CLI client). http://www.openrdap.org Steve -- hesketh.com/inc. v: +1(919)834-2552 f: +1(919)834-2553 w: http://hesketh.com/ Internet security and antispam hostname intelligence: http://enemieslist.com/ _______________________________________________ mailop mailing list mailop@mailop.org https://list.mailop.org/listinfo/mailop
