Thanks to the rapid evolution of the Internet and the role technology plays in all of our lives, the WHOIS of today is far larger and more complex than what many of the Internet creators envisioned — a contact sheet for the early users of what was then a vast, untamed wilderness. Since then, the WHOIS has continued to be implemented in a way that’s more or less the same as when it was started. As an analogy, think of having an airport’s traffic control run out of a covered wagon in what was once the Wild West.
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