ICANN Updates Procedures for Handling Conflicts Between Privacy Laws, WHOIS Data Compliance
ICANN released its updated procedures Tuesday for handling conflicts between compliance with WHOIS domain registration data requirements and global privacy laws. The updated procedure allows an accredited domain registry or registrar to give ICANN a written statement from the concerned…
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government stating how WHOIS data requirements conflict with the government's privacy laws. The procedure previously allowed only the registrar to invoke the procedure if the contracted party had received a “notification of an action” that WHOIS compliance clashed with privacy laws, ICANN said.