ICANN wants to kill off WHOIS

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An ICANN working group wants to replace the current WHOIS system for retrieving details of domain name registrations.

The Expert Working Group on gTLD Directory Services (EWG) is calling for public input  on a successor to the current WHOIS system used to retrieve domain name information.

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