[relistan]

I know this particular problem space well. AI is a reasonable solution. WHOIS records are intentionally made to be human readable and not be machine parseable without huge effort because so many people were scraping them. So the same registrar may return records in a huge range of text formats. You can write code to handle them all if you really want to, but if you are not doing it en masse, AI is going to probably be a cheaper solution.

Example: https://github.com/weppos/whois is a very solid library for whois parsing but cannot handle all servers, as they say themselves. That has fifteen + years of work on it.

[LadyCailin]

But.. that’s exactly what this thread is about. RDAP is the future, not WHOIS.

[relistan]

Yes, exactly. Read what I was responding to.

[notpushkin]

I think you’re both right, and also both are missing the point.

Using LLMs to parse whois data is okay in the meantime (preferably as a last resort!), but structuring the data properly in the first place (i.e. RDAP) is the better solution in the long run.

[relistan]

I’m not missing that point at all. I’m 100% on board.