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Hopefully this wouldn't affect whoisprivacy


No, there are no changes on that one, it's solely a technical change on how the registration data is delivered (switching from a freeform* ASCII-only bespoke protocol to an HTTP and JSON-based machine-readable Unicode-ready standard).

* Although there's some unwritten standards on what data should be on an WHOIS, in practice it can be wildly different especially on ccTLDs and IP addresses.


It looks like it's mostly about making WHOIS data machine-readable and allowing it to support more information: https://about.rdap.org/




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