General Data Protection Regulation, or GDPR, is coming. Here's what it means, how it'll impact individuals and businesses. We'll see. It doesn't appear to me that ICANN's "Temporary Specification for ...

I got an email today which looks like one of those ICANN required verification emails that registrars have to send out to domain holders. ICANN requires registrars to send a notice to verify whois ...

WHOIS, the searchable “phonebook” of contact data for internet domains, may violate GDPR — or it may not. A lawsuit seeks to find out which it is. The WHOIS internet domain directory is at the center ...

Last Friday, being taken to ensure that the provisions of the RAA with regard to WHOIS information are followed correctly. And in nearly every article we have published here at The Industry Standard ...

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) is to conduct a review of the Whois database for domain name registrants, and assess the feasibility of allowing individuals and ...

The agency that runs the Internet’s technical infrastructure—ICANN—is mulling a plan pushed by the entertainment industry that could dramatically limit the use of proxy registration services that mask ...

Google filed it’s comment on the whois privacy issue with ICANN today. Google seems to hate the proposal of the ICANN working group to prohibit commercial domain registrants from using proxy or ...

The standards body for Internet domain names should ratchet up efforts to ensure the accuracy of domain-name owner data and eliminate bulk marketing that uses domain-name information, according to ...

A working group set up by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) to thrash out differences over proposed privacy changes to the WHOIS database stopped work last week with ...

NEW YORK – Many owners of Internet addresses face this quandary: Provide your real contact information when you register a domain name — and subject yourself to junk or harassment. Or enter fake data ...

While Congress continues to consider the merits of so-called Net neutrality, an even more soporific but vital Internet legal issue looms, with ramifications for every business online and every user of ...