Re: The world isn't the US or the EU
"The whole reason ICANN wants to retain the whois service is because of the pressure from the US copyright industry. "
WHOIS has been broken for a couple of decades - well before the copyright cartels got involved.
The problem has always been that no one has managed to come up with a pragmatic and effective way of keeping contact details of business domains online and _accurate_ vs the issue of personal protection for anyone silly enough to register a domain using their home address and phone numbers, whilst preventing scammers from abusing the process.
What's needed is a complete replacement which allows abuse _of_ the network to be dealt with quickly and providing a path for proper legal discovery (with protections from abuses by copyright trolls) when it comes to abuse _on_ the network.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
