Reply to post: Turn off WHOIS

Domain name sellers rub ICANN's face in sticky mess of Europe's GDPR

Duncan Macdonald

Turn off WHOIS

With GDPR and the stupidity of ICANN, the only reasonable alternative for registrars in europe is to turn off WHOIS - cut the data feed or replace the data with dummy lines saying "Removed due to GDPR". If ICANN complains then inform them that laws trump their contracts.

(If a WHOIS service uses cached data rather than the dummy data, the service would be the liable party - not the registrar.)

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