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What I miss the most, and where the most damage to the net has been done so far, is in terms of whois. Without WHOIS it's become near impossible to contact peo
by superkuh 4y ago
What I miss the most, and where the most damage to the net has been done so far, is in terms of whois. Without WHOIS it's become near impossible to contact people. Before you'd find an interesting domain, whois, email 'em up. Now that GDPR has made whois illegal, or a high enough legal risk that registrars are chosing to turn it off, there's no way to contact any arbitrary domain. It's made the web a lot more impersonal and corporate.
- madeofpalk 4y agoWHOIS was next to useless for getting contact information prior to GDPR thanks to every domain register defaulting to 'free privacy protection'. I don't consider it a loss that there's one less place my phone number and address is posted online.
- chrismorgan 4y agoEh, I never had much success with at least corporate whois email addresses even before they started being effectively removed (by registrars masking them, years before GDPR). Even addresses like postmaster@ which are mandated by the SMTP spec (RFC 5321 §4.5.1 and other places) don’t tend to work.
- Hitton 4y agoThis is wrong. Look how whois works on .eu domain.