On 27 Jan 2016, at 8:31, Antoin Verschuren wrote:

4. Registrar-based WHOIS goes away. The WHOIS does not show any expiration date, and registrars and registrants have to communicate with each other about expirations and payments etc.

No more discussions. I kind of like that ;-)

This also has the benefit of reinforcing the notion that the registrant needs to log in to her registrar to see their domain’s data — which is good.