This is about sunsetting the WHOIS protocol in favor of RDAP, not doing away with domain owner registration data.
Also, why the title is not same as the article? It makes no sense.
I’ll often post loosely related tangents like this because I would enjoy discussing the tangent with the HN crowd, but there’s often not a better opportunity to discuss it, so why not while we’re sort of on the topic anyway.
Ack that I don’t think it makes sense to discuss not even remotely related topics. But as long as it’s in the ballpark and it’s not going against other guidelines and leads to interesting discussion, I think it’s fine.
RDAP offers several advantages over WHOIS including [...] the ability to provide differentiated access to registration data.
Somewhere enshitification fits all over the place.