[Bug 285604] net/jwhois: Depends on deprecated libidn

https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=285604

--- Comment #7 from Terry Kennedy <terry-freebsd@glaver.org> ---
(In reply to Koichiro Iwao from comment #4)
ICANN is just doing something for the sake of appearing to be doing something,
and providing less functionality. This certainly isn't unique to them - I could
say the same thing about ISC BIND, for example. 

Anyway, compare the output of "jwhois 204.141.35.0" with that same netblock in
RDAP: https://lookup.icann.org/en/lookup

WHOIS is a tangled mess of "you need to know who to ask", while RDAP seems to
handle that for many cases. However, I've managed to get it to respond with "No
registry RDAP server was identified for this domain. Attempting lookup using
WHOIS service." So (to quote Monty Python) "But I'm not dead yet!"

The WHOIS/RDAP data for domain registrations has become far less useful as time
has passed, since many domains are now registered behind WHOIS privacy proxies.
However, AS assignments and netblock data is still useful.

I think we (I) should continue to maintain jwhois until it doesn't have any
usable servers to contact.

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