Whois service may change
Whois service will not disappear yet. This week, at the ICANN meeting in Los Angeles, the Commonwealth Domain Support Committee (GNSO) discussed a proposal according to which an indispensable system for providing information on domain owners could simply cease to exist. The fact is that the requirements for the information contained in the public in its nature Whois service have recently increasingly come into conflict with the norms of national legislation on personal data.
A proposal by privacy advocates to restrict public access to domain ownership data through a Whois service by members of the GNSO committee was rejected until it was decided to further investigate this issue.
The debate about the future of the Whois-service has been going on for 7 years already. Last year, ICANN published a report with polar views from intellectual property advocates, Internet service providers, private users, etc. Probably, today it is really time to decide whether the existence of the Whois service, containing publicly available names, addresses, telephone numbers of domain owners and other similar information, is admissible in its current form.
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Intellectual property owners and journalists are opposed to restricting publicly available Whois information. According to them, the service is necessary to protect against cybersquatters, spammers and scammers. The American Association for the Protection of Intellectual Property went further and stated that "the information available is necessary for the law to administer justice." On the other hand, it is unlikely that, say, terrorists and distributors of child pornography will indicate their real home addresses when registering a domain. But ordinary people, pointing out their phones and home and e-mail addresses, suffer from spammers and other attacks of the “fans” of the Internet. In addition, over the past few years, ways to circumvent the requirements of ICANN have emerged: for a certain fee, law firms write their data into the Whois database, thus hiding the names of real domain owners.
At the same time, representatives of the University of Syracuse Milton Muller and Mawaki Chango this year conducted their own research and concluded that the Whois base would never have become public if it had not been laid in its very foundations, from the very first days of the Internet. As a result, ICANN concluded that a decision on the further fate of the Whois service should be made no later than February 2008.
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A proposal by privacy advocates to restrict public access to domain ownership data through a Whois service by members of the GNSO committee was rejected until it was decided to further investigate this issue.
The debate about the future of the Whois-service has been going on for 7 years already. Last year, ICANN published a report with polar views from intellectual property advocates, Internet service providers, private users, etc. Probably, today it is really time to decide whether the existence of the Whois service, containing publicly available names, addresses, telephone numbers of domain owners and other similar information, is admissible in its current form.
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Intellectual property owners and journalists are opposed to restricting publicly available Whois information. According to them, the service is necessary to protect against cybersquatters, spammers and scammers. The American Association for the Protection of Intellectual Property went further and stated that "the information available is necessary for the law to administer justice." On the other hand, it is unlikely that, say, terrorists and distributors of child pornography will indicate their real home addresses when registering a domain. But ordinary people, pointing out their phones and home and e-mail addresses, suffer from spammers and other attacks of the “fans” of the Internet. In addition, over the past few years, ways to circumvent the requirements of ICANN have emerged: for a certain fee, law firms write their data into the Whois database, thus hiding the names of real domain owners.
At the same time, representatives of the University of Syracuse Milton Muller and Mawaki Chango this year conducted their own research and concluded that the Whois base would never have become public if it had not been laid in its very foundations, from the very first days of the Internet. As a result, ICANN concluded that a decision on the further fate of the Whois service should be made no later than February 2008.
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Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/15763/
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