{"id":363,"date":"2007-10-30T14:49:52","date_gmt":"2007-10-30T18:49:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/archives\/363"},"modified":"2007-10-30T14:49:52","modified_gmt":"2007-10-30T18:49:52","slug":"sunset-on-whois","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/2007\/10\/30\/sunset-on-whois\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunset on Whois"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Whois may die. I&#8217;ve used it in the past to determine who owns a web site. I&#8217;ve even been frustrated that a very negative web site had a privacy blocker in place so I could not determine who ran the site. At the same time, I have the same protection on most of my domains. I no longer get the massive amounts of spam now that I have changed the protected address.<\/p>\n<p>IMO, ICANN may as well die. Its a collective of people who represent interests of companies or activists without much concern for what they should&#8230; A high functioning Internet. They hit similar deadlocks regularly. Everyone has their lines drawn in the sand such that nothing can move. I&#8217;m surprised whenever they make a decision.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Marilyn Cade &#8230; called the sunset proposal &#8220;<strong>an emotional overreaction that somehow got crystalized into an option<\/strong>&#8230;&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.physorg.com\/news112893328.html\">Whois May Be Scrapped to Break Deadlock<\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The original intent of the system was to provide a way for exchanging contact information for resolving issues. I&#8217;d image technical folks involved with DNS, email, and web sites still use it to some degree. Should it disappear today, DNS would still convert an IP to a host.domain name. Hopefully that domain has a web site who will tell me who to contact? <\/p>\n<blockquote><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whois may die. I&#8217;ve used it in the past to determine who owns a web site. I&#8217;ve even been frustrated that a very negative web site had a privacy blocker in place so I could not determine who ran the site. At the same time, I have the same protection on most of my domains. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[71,73,263,75,97,277,3043,217,191],"class_list":["post-363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-interweb","tag-companies","tag-email","tag-information","tag-internet","tag-issues","tag-name","tag-privacy","tag-web-site","tag-web-sites"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1rUBW-5R","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=363"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}