Is WHOIS going to go away?

Sat Apr 21 21:30:03 UTC 2018

> On Apr 21, 2018, at 2:27 PM, Lyndon Nerenberg <lyndon at orthanc.ca> wrote:
> 
>> But backup and failover are reasonably well understood technologies
>> where one cares. Registrars could for example cache copies of those
>> zone records and act as failover whois servers.

Sorry!  I left out the last line that was the point of my diatribe.  Using SRV to point to multiple domain-specific whois servers eliminates the caching problem Barry raised.