On Sat, Apr 14, 2018 at 08:20:06PM +0000, Filip Hruska wrote: > Scraping WHOIS systems for thousands domains at once using the WHOIS > protocol is easy though. There are "WHOIS History" sites which scrape all > domains and then publish the data along with the date of retrieval.
Which would not be necessary if all WHOIS information was fully published in text/XML/whatever form, available for immediate download/rsync to everyone, and refreshed at intervals (say, once a day). This would neatly undercut the business model for these sites and would ensure that anyone who wants the information can get it efficiently. ---rsk
