A model that might make domain investing easier under GDPR. A lot of processes domain investors and marketplaces use have become challenging thanks to the European Unions General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Most of this has to do with ... Continue Reading1 Comment
Year in Review: GDPR
· Policy & LawGDPR walloped the domain industry in 2018. [Editor's note: this is the first in a series of articles covering the top stories of 2018. Many of the top posts this year are related, so I combined them into the top themes of the year.] The top ... Continue Reading5 Comments
NTIA head: No Whois is “unmitigated victory for the spammers and scammers”
· Policy & LawRedl says U.S. government continues to fight for access to Whois information. This morning at the Internet Governance Forum in Washington, D.C., NTIA Assistant Secretary David Redl spoke about the impact of the EU's GDPR on Whois. He said the lack ... Continue Reading8 Comments
ICANN appeals German court ruling as it seeks definitive ruling on GDPR and Whois data collection
· Policy & LawICANN wants to know if collecting certain Whois data is a violation of GDPR. A court battle in Germany over the impact of the EU's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) continues. ICANN filed a legal action against EPAG, a registrar owned by ... Continue Reading2 Comments
Consensus be damned: here’s how transfers will work at Tucows after GDPR
· Domain RegistrarsTucows will follow TechOps subcommittee recommendation for domain transfers as ICANN figures out what to do. Here's the thing about GDPR and domain name registrars/registries: if they wait for ICANN to figure out how to address GDPR, it will be too ... Continue Reading7 Comments
Afilias hits pause button on Whois plans
· Policy & LawCompany backtracks on plans to redact Whois...for now. Two days after informing registrars that it planned to redact almost all information from Whois records to comply with the EU's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), Afilias has put its plans ... Continue ReadingLeave a Comment
GDPR will make domain name transfers more difficult
· Policy & LawLack of contact details in public Whois could thwart inter-registrar domain transfers. A few Domain Name Wire readers have asked how domain name transfers will work if domain registrars and registries eliminate contact details from Whois in response to ... Continue Reading8 Comments
Whois GDPR carnage continues: Afilias to ditch almost all data in Whois on millions of domains
· Policy & LawAfilias will stop showing contact info and ownership data on millions of domains including .info, .mobi and more. Please see update Much of the focus of General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) as it relates to Whois has been on registrars. But ... Continue Reading9 Comments
Austria’s TLD takes more nuanced approach to GDPR and Whois
· Policy & LawccTLD will treat personal and corporate data differently. A common interpretation of The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is that it applies to individuals who live in Europe but not businesses there. Still, most models I've seen for Whois ... Continue ReadingLeave a Comment
Will May 2018 be the death of Whois?
· Policy & LawWhois will change forever next year. On May 25, 2018, the European Union's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) will go into full effect. The privacy regulation will have a major impact on industries that handle personal data of people in the ... Continue Reading12 Comments