{"id":673,"date":"2007-10-30T14:38:00","date_gmt":"2007-10-30T20:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/?p=673"},"modified":"2007-10-30T14:38:00","modified_gmt":"2007-10-30T20:38:00","slug":"the-end-of-whois","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/2007\/10\/the-end-of-whois\/","title":{"rendered":"The end of WHOIS?!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"dropcaps\">I<\/span> have just done my internet search 101 class that introduces students to the wonders of <a href=\"http:\/\/tools.whois.net\/whoisbyip\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">WHOIS<\/span><\/a>, and guess what &#8211; yes, pull out the headline pun &#8211; WHOIS could be WHOIS-tory, WHOIS could be WHOWAS etc etc.<span id=\"fullpost\"><\/p>\n<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/bp1.blogger.com\/_7FX8PyQEiZw\/RyeX5Z1DUbI\/AAAAAAAAAJU\/44g6DQszbsc\/s1600-h\/whois+-+Google+News.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/bp1.blogger.com\/_7FX8PyQEiZw\/RyeX5Z1DUbI\/AAAAAAAAAJU\/44g6DQszbsc\/s400\/whois+-+Google+News.jpeg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5127233713226338738\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here is the <a href=\"http:\/\/ap.google.com\/article\/ALeqM5hCiHLmZiymo5BhARlugPCaGcTsUQD8SJ3H6O0\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">AP<\/span> story<\/a>. If you read it, you\u2019ll notice that, to use one of my favourite Americanisms, <a href=\"http:\/\/minimediaguy.org\/2007\/01\/30\/daily-journalism-that-dog-cant-hunt\/\" target=\"_blank\">this dog won\u2019t hunt<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>some privacy advocates are proposing scrapping the system entirely&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>OK, so they are not really going to succeed&#8230;what happens next?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The so-called &#8220;sunset&#8221; proposal is expected to come up Wednesday before a committee of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, or ICANN, a key Internet oversight agency.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>But it isn\u2019t really going to happen is it? So the nub of the story?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It will have a tough time winning approval \u2014 and could create chaos.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The non-paradox of news!<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have just done my internet search 101 class that introduces students to the wonders of WHOIS, and guess what &#8211; yes, pull out the headline pun &#8211; WHOIS could be WHOIS-tory, WHOIS could be WHOWAS etc etc. Here is the AP story. If you read it, you\u2019ll notice that, to use one of my [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[58],"class_list":["post-673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-new-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/673","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=673"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/673\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}