I blogged about the GDPR issues of WhoIs a few days ago. Now I see that ICANN has filed suit. Following is an excerpt from an article published at itnews.com about the lawsuit.
What is and isn’t permissible under GDPR headed for courts.
Domain overseer ICANN is mounting a legal test case against a German registrar as a last-ditch attempt to protect the WHOIS master database, which identifies who owns what internet domain.The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has filed suit against EPAG – part of the Tucows Group.
Through the case, ICANN said it wanted a court ruling on whether European registrars can continue to collect information on who they sell new domains to without violating the general data protection regulation (GDPR).
ICANN’s struggle to make the internet domain name system (DNS) and WHOIS database GDPR compliant have been well documented…
Read the full article at: https://www.itnews.com.au/news/icann-files-suit-to-protect-whois-database-491822
Thanks to ResearchBuzz for the heads-up.
