# WHOIS: An Unstructured Look at an Older Internet Protocol

DevFeed: [WHOIS: An Unstructured Look at an Older Internet Protocol](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/whois-fragile-unparseable-obsolete-and-universally-relied-upon-30279.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://www.netmeister.org/blog/whois.html>)

Published: 2022-01-02T04:17:25Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Signs of Triviality](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/signs-of-triviality.md>)

Topics: [Internet](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/internet.md>)

Tags: [internet](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/internet.md>), [protocols](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/protocols.md>)

## AI overview

An unstructured look at WHOIS, described as one of the older internet protocols.

## Source excerpt

A rather unstructured look at one of the older and infuriatingly trivial internet protocols: WHOIS