[cloudyporpoise]

It's sad we can't improve and build modern APIs that can support load and querying and exactly why companies exist whose main business function is scraping services like WhoIs, Social Media, or Sites behind cloudflare.

[tptacek]

As the article observes, we can and are doing that: that's what RDAP is.

[CydeWeys]

And the linked article, written in January, is out of date on that front. The timeline has finally been set and Whois is transitioning to RDAP for all new gTLDs next year.