ICANN, the nonprofit responsible for maintaining WHOIS, filed a GDPR-related lawsuit last week with the intention to gain clarity on the implementation of the new privacy rules. The complaint was filed against EPAG, a European DNS registrar that stopped collecting WHOIS information due to fears of...
A request by the ICANN, the owner of WHOIS, for a delay to comply with the GDPR had reportedly been turned down this week. The site was forced to remove information such as contact names, email addresses, and phone numbers that journalists and police often...
It was reported that DNS overseer ICANN has told internet companies under contract with the WHOIS policy to implement its new draft before May 25 in order to be compliant with the GDPR privacy legislation. However, it was noted that companies are going to have a...
Nonprofit Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) is currently holding a week long meeting in Puerto Rico to tackle the issue facing the public WHOIS database which may be made illegal by the upcoming GDPR. Sources say that WHOIS may be divided into two...
Chief scientist at McAfee cybersecurity Raj Samani recently explained that the upcoming EU GDPR may end up protecting scammers and spammers if it kills off the WHOIS protocol. WHOIS is a lookup service used to reveal the contact details of the owner of a domain...