ICANN gTLD Review Group Recommends Making Some Whois Data Public
ICANN's Generic Names Supporting Organization Council, OK'ing all policy recommendations in the Expedited Policy Development Process Team's report on temporary specifications for global top-level domain registration data, noted the final document has 29 such recommendations. Data that would be collected…
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and made public such as through the Whois database of registered domain names would include some contact information to report problems, although some people's names would be redacted in other data fields. The council gave the nonprofit's board the report, with public comments due April 17 before directors would act, ICANN said Monday and emailed stakeholders the next day. In 2018, the board approved the temporary Whois gTLD registration data spec to comply with EU's general data protection regulation (see 1810310008).