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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link="#467886" vlink="#96607D" style='word-wrap:break-word'><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>Maintain the existing Whois!<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>My vote, as a persistent user querying ip addresses.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Regards,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Mike<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'> ARIN-consult <arin-consult-bounces@arin.net> <b>On Behalf Of </b>John Curran<br><b>Sent:</b> Monday, August 31, 2026 3:56 PM<br><b>To:</b> Adam Thompson <athompson@merlin.mb.ca><br><b>Cc:</b> arin-consult@arin.net<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [ARIN-consult] Consultation on the Future of ARIN’s Directory Services (Updated)<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal>On Aug 31, 2026, at 11:37<span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'> </span>AM, Adam Thompson <<a href="mailto:athompson@merlin.mb.ca">athompson@merlin.mb.ca</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>...<br>Per my previous comment, I think it would be very useful to see the query type breakdown - my suspicion is that 99+% of all queries are "simple" bare-word queries, and that could potentially be re-implemented with a fairly simple wrapper without a massive effort.<o:p></o:p></p></blockquote><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Adam -<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><blockquote style='margin-left:30.0pt;margin-right:0in'><p class=MsoNormal>We took a look, and your intuition is largely right – approximately 79% of Whois queries are IP addresses, 10% ASNs, 9% organizations, and only 2% other query types.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>We also looked at query sources. Interestingly, all of the top ten queriers over the same seven-day period are coming from AWS addresses, so we have little visibility into the actual organizations behind the traffic.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>On the wrapper idea, ARIN has done something similar before, and our engineering view is that developing, testing, and operating a new compatibility layer would likely be more effort and operational risk than simply maintaining the existing Whois service for longer period (e.g. until RDAP becomes dominant) <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>This is also driven by the notification challenges as mentioned earlier; we’ve considered adding banners to whois output but they’re unlikely to be effective if parsed by automated systems processing the output.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></blockquote><p class=MsoNormal>Thanks!<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>/John<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>John Curran<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>President and CEO<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>American Registry for Internet Numbers<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>