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<div>On Aug 31, 2026, at 11:37 AM, Adam Thompson <athompson@merlin.mb.ca> wrote:</div>
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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.</div>
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<div>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.</div>
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<div>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.</div>
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<div>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) </div>
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<div>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.</div>
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<div>Thanks!</div>
<div>/John</div>
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<div>John Curran</div>
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<div>American Registry for Internet Numbers</div>
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