[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #15281: Arin whois link is borked

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#15281: Arin whois link is borked
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 Reporter:  nacin         |       Owner:     
     Type:  defect (bug)  |      Status:  new
 Priority:  normal        |   Milestone:  3.1
Component:  Mail          |     Version:     
 Severity:  normal        |    Keywords:     
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 http://ws.arin.net/cgi-bin/whois.pl?queryinput=72.233.56.138

 I am tempted to propose an api.wordpress.org service, that way these links
 will never break, but more importantly because arin.net is one of like 7
 services based on global regions, and requesting an Asian IP through
 arin.net doesn't work.

 An IP/geo lookup in core would be prohibitive, but if we still want to
 keep a link (beyond the IP), then we could do this.

 On the other hand, IP addresses are becoming less meaningful. Should we
 just kill the link?

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