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0 pointsthiht2y ago0 comments

Regarding RDAP, it actually is enforced by ICANN, it’s been mandatory for a few years for gTLDs (not sure if it is, or can be made mandatory for ccTLDs). All registrars handling gTLDs should now have an RDAP, otherwise they’re in breach of ICANN rules.

RDAP has the benefit of being JSON, but even then it’s a reaaally crappy format. For example, contacts are represented by the jCard pseudo-standard, which is a JSON version of vCard, and it’s completely awful and hard to deal with. Basically instead of a nice JSON object, it’s arrays in arrays in arrays…

RDAP should get better in the future versions, but I’m not sure registrars will follow in good faith because the initial specs were a bit of a shit show.

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deathanatos2y ago

> not sure if it is, or can be made mandatory for ccTLDs

ccTLDs don't. Proof by counter-example: .co, .io.

I don't know if that can be enforced, but it'd make my life easier.

(Technically, too, AIUI, it's the registries that run the RDAP servers, not the registrars.)

Yeah, the JSON is a bit of a crap-shoot, but I think it's maybe marginally better than trying to parse raw WHOIS text…? IDK. Probably depends on the exact datum you want to pull out of it.

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