Re: Good for regulators
that any one government or small group of them think they can grab the right to control something worldwide
Yet again, the EU is NOT doing this. ICANN't really can do whatever they like with (say) US citizens' data and the EU won't give a toss. So a US registrar, operating in the US, can sell to a US citizen not living in the EU - and the EU is not trying to prevent the registrants personal information going into whois, that's for US authorities to deal with and note that California has just passed a law very similar to GDPR.
But where (eg) the registrant is an EU citizen living in the EU, then that's different. It does not matter at all who the company is - GDPR applies and if the organisation has any presence in the EU then it's possible for the EU to fine it for GDPR breaches.
Now, lets consider an analogy - a poor one because there's physical goods involved etc. Suppose a purely EU based car manufacturer wanted to sell their cars into the US. The US authorities would say words to the effect of "sell into our market and you abide by our rules" - so the cars would have to meet US DoT regulations, have lights that work "the US way", and so on. That's not the US saying that cars sold in the EU have to meet US regs - they simply would not care - only that cars sold into the US have to meet US regs. And it works both ways - a US manufacturer has to make their products meet EU regs if they sell them into the EU.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
