You have probably heard about the GDPR and its consequences a hundred times by now, but for clarity let’s do a quick recap. The GDPR is a new regulation by the European Union created around the ...

Certificate authorities and browser makers are planning to end the use of WHOIS data verifying domain ownership following a report that demonstrated how threat actors could abuse the process to obtain ...

The public directory that contains information about who has registered every domain on the web looks increasingly at risk of going dark next month, after European data protection regulators rejected ...

The EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is resulting in internet domain registrars hiding domain registration information to avoid fines for non-compliance. Domain registration information ...

Summary: WhoisFreaks has achieved the rank of industry leader by achieving 625 million+ domains that are tracked in their extensive WHOIS database. Lahore, Pakistan--(Newsfile Corp. - April 2, 2024) - ...

A flaw in Google's Apps domain renewal system has resulted in the exposure of over 280,000 hidden WHOIS records. On Thursday, Cisco security researchers reported that a problem in the Google Apps ...

Personal information protection rule of EU enforced from May 25, 2018GDPR (EU General Data Protection Rule), "WHOISIt is prohibited to disclose the name of the domain owner and contact information as ...

As a result of changes to data privacy laws such a GDPR and POPIA, changes are required to ensure WHOIS remains compliant. WHOIS is a publicly available directory where one can look up information ...

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A European watchdog has opposed moved by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Named and Numbers (ICANN) to force domain name registrars to improve accuracy of the WHOIS database. Jacob Kohnstamm, ...