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It is also about not publishing the owner part of whois. Private persons names will have to be hidden under GDPR.
by davidgould 8y ago
It is also about not publishing the owner part of whois. Private persons names will have to be hidden under GDPR.
- pas 8y agoThat's not due to the GDPR. The GDPR is about informed consent. Do you want a domain? Yes. Great, now we need your name, and we'll put it into the WHOIS. Do you consent? Yes. Great, here's your domain. No! Okay, then you might try a different TLD, that doesn't require WHOIS publication. The part that the GDPR is very much up to the courts, is that whether WHOIS publication is necessary for the function of the domain. Because if not, then it can be argued that it's an undue burden and it should be a separate thing, so the lack of consent for it must not mean domain registration rejection. However, ICANN thinks differently about the issue.
- guitarbill 8y ago> whether WHOIS publication is necessary for the function of the domain It is not (e.g. see the paid privacy guard services), and the article 29 working party (WP29) has been telling them this since 2003. ICANN has been ignoring it for 15 years. Until now, there was no way to enforce that. And now they reap what they sowed, with registrars stuck in the middle.