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Europe fires back at ICANN's delusional plan to overhaul Whois for GDPR by next, er, year

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... mostly just used by copyright cartels

It's mostly just used by copyright cartels to sue people anyway.

No. It may well be used for that, since a lot of people seem to think that the copyright laws don't apply to them personally, but it's intended for use to fix operational problems by identifying the responsible operator for an address block or a domain. (As I said re a previous story, which people don't seem to get, judging by the number of downvotes.) It's true that you don't need a personal name to provide that; it could be BOFH@example.co.uk, but that hasn't been the historical approach since whois was invented 30+ years ago.

Doesn't change the fact that ICANN is heading for a fall on this.

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