Company goes after another Whois record seller.
The lawsuit is similar to one it filed against DomainTools last year.
DNC alleges that Whois API has accessed and stored .nz Whois records in violation of its terms of use.
The group sent a cease & desist letter to Whois API on December 17, 2018, the lawsuit states. At that time, it also revoked Whois API’s limited license to run any .nz Whois queries. It says it didn’t receive any response after multiple attempts to contact Whois API and its CEO.
Whois API originally sold a lot of data to people that used it for marketing purposes, including Whois database downloads, but has shifted its messaging to security over the years.
The lawsuit filing is here (pdf).
Wait and see, I am sure that there will be more such legal actions taken against such companies ,especially given the GDPR.
https://tool.domains/ anyone?
I so much hate this company I do not know why the USA government licensed them to operate in that peril in the first place.
I wish it favors NZ and let whois pay for privacy concerns thanks to GDPR
After this many other domain name manager will also sue.