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Whois? More like WHOWAS: Domain database on verge of collapse over EU privacy

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Re: This is crazy!

Smoke and mirrors to obscure the real failures to protect privacy: Like the Equifax leak and Five Eyes own mass intrusions. Frankly I've never liked the proxy option: anyone who wants a vanity domain should be advised up front to set up their own legal entity for registration purposes. The Internet isn't a consumer shopping mall, its a global comms system. Anyone too stupid or cheap to do that can publish on facebook.com or wordpress.com. With most of the world in poverty it's obscene for anyone to insist that owning your own domain name is some kind of human right. The GDPR is complex and draconian enough that the real bad guys in the privacy space like Equifax are going to find ways to circumvent it, while the rest of us foot the bill for politicos bragging rights.

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