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Oh, it' accomplished something. It entirely ruined WHOIS so that you can no longer just pull up domain contact information. Another knife into the back of email
by superkuh 6y ago
Oh, it' accomplished something. It entirely ruined WHOIS so that you can no longer just pull up domain contact information. Another knife into the back of email. Now it's basically $socialnetwork or nothing. And it hasn't stopped any of the things it was meant to. It's just disconnected much of Europe's userbase from the rest of the world like China and Russia.
And give it another 10 years and the same GDPR regulations will have entirely established and cemented the tech giants (the only ones with the army of lawyers on retainer) as the only players possible.
- dannyw 6y agoWHOIS privacy has existed for a long time, your argument is moot.
- superkuh 6y agoDomains with WHOIS privacy services holding the domain for them still had email addresses before. Most whois privacy services provided forwarding to the actual owner. This is no longer true. Your counter-argument is moot.
- M2Ys4U 6y ago>Oh, it' accomplished something. It entirely ruined WHOIS so that you can no longer just pull up domain contact information. That was ICANN's decision. They implemented a scorched-earth policy in response to the GDPR rather than, say, showing corporate ownership information and hiding personal ownership information. It was petty, and, I imagine, would not have happened if ICANN wasn't a US corporation.