Comment by CaffeineLD50
2 years ago
I havent had a successful use of whois in probably over a decade. What was once a useful tool was destroyed by spammers harvesting email addresses and privacy oriented registrars.
I won't even notice its gone
2 years ago
I havent had a successful use of whois in probably over a decade. What was once a useful tool was destroyed by spammers harvesting email addresses and privacy oriented registrars.
I won't even notice its gone
It is useful for finding out who owns an IP address, but that's about it.
BGP looking glasses are still a thing, so at least we have that.
Whois -r lookups I use Arin for.
Maybe I'm confused but whois gave me domain owner, but whois -r gave me Arin IP netblock ownership.
Arin is useful, whois is not.