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19 Aug 2013

Is this the worst WHOIS of all time? ICANN
Here is the entire WHOIS result for the domain 9rasa.net. No names, no addresses, no phone numbers, just one gmail address. I know the domain is in use, because an ESP (bulk mail provider) sent in some updates saying they're a client.

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  posted at: 18:15 :: permanent link to this entry :: 1 comments
Stable link is https://jl.ly/ICANN/9rasa.html

12 Aug 2013

What's up with WEIRDS? ICANN

The IETF WEIRDS working group is defining a follow-on to WHOIS. Since this is the IETF, it's working on the technical issues about which it can deal with, not policy which is up to ICANN and the country registries.

Somewhat to my surprise, the group is making steady progress. We've agreed that the basic model is RESTful, with queries via http, and responses as JSON data structures. The protocol is named RDAP for Registration Data Access Protocol, or maybe RESTful Data Access protocol.

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  posted at: 12:26 :: permanent link to this entry :: 0 comments
Stable link is https://jl.ly/ICANN/weirds13.html

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