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[Rhys Smith <Rhys.Smith AT jisc.ac.uk>]

On 1 Jun 2018, at 10:53, Peter Schober <peter.schober AT univie.ac.at> wrote:
> 
> Since most/all of us will only ever be dealing with *organisations* --
> not indvidual natural persons -- as domain/namespace owners there
> should be no reason for WHOIS info to be redacted. GDPR does not
> protect company info, only natural persons’.

True.


> But of course ignorance, overraction and stupidity have killed other
> good things, so it might well be the case that WHOIS will become much
> less usage in the future for all the wrong reasons.

And even more true-er.

Unfortunately we’ve already run into this - in the .uk namespace at least.

Rhys.
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