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It was .us, operated by GoDaddy ;) Not surprised on this, especially on the GoDaddy part. Although .uk also has no-proxies rule, at least Nominet themselves do
by zinekeller 3y ago
It was .us, operated by GoDaddy ;)
Not surprised on this, especially on the GoDaddy part. Although .uk also has no-proxies rule, at least Nominet themselves don't reveal your details if you're an individual even before GDPR (the idea being that if you're a company you have enough money to handle public requests).
- CydeWeys 3y agoFor what it's worth, .us is the ccTLD for the United States, and policies for it like "You can't hide your WHOIS info" would be set by the US government, not by GoDaddy. GoDaddy Registry as the backend registry service provider isn't setting the policies for a ccTLD.
- zinekeller 3y ago> policies for it like "You can't hide your WHOIS info" would be set by the US government I have actually checked this, and you're (partially) wrong on this one. To be fair, I was also wrong that GoDaddy (within limitations set by the Department of Commerce) has free reign here. The actual process is more boring: while the US DOC has veto powers, in practice it's the .US Stakeholder Council (https://www.about.us/stakeholders https://www.about.us/stakeholders) which decides on matters about .US policies. On that note, in the specific issue of no-proxies rule it was the US DOC who enforced it, not GoDaddy or Neustar (which was the previous operator): https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A7251-2005Mar4.html https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A7251-2005Mar...