Tag – Gdpr-whois-changes

After twelve months of endless discussions and a looming deadline, ICANN received information from the Art 29 Working Party. 

The EU Data Protection Authorities will not grant ICANN forbearance regarding the May 25th deadline when it comes to the WHOIS. Again the DPA’s re-confirmed their advise towards ICANN and does not deviate much from the advice they have provided ICANN since 2000.

The full press release from ICANN and the Article 29 WP letter can be read here.

Now that it is official there will be no forbearance regarding WHOIS, which was a silly request to begin with, …

Kevin Murphy from DomainIncite has written an excellent article about the all the ins and outs how WHOIS might look like in May this year, which you can read here.

I do not entirely agree with Kevin if privacy services are going to be free.
In the current setup, our privacy proxy service still has added value when it comes to spam prevention.
I think it is more accurate, that if ICANN no longer requires personal data to be displayed in the WHOIS the need use a privacy service to prevent such display of personal data becomes obsolete, after …