ICANN Details Approach to Enforcing Temporary Whois Rules
ICANN is getting questions about how it will enforce temporary rules for Whois compliance under the EU general data protection regulation, Senior Vice President-Contractual Compliance and Consumer Safeguards Jamie Hedlund blogged Monday. The temporary specification, effective May 25, modifies ICANN…
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registry and registrar contracts, and awaits EU data protection authorities' OK (see 1807160017). Hedlund hears concerns including: (1) How ICANN will obtain non-public registration data needed to process complaints. (2) The availability of data published in Whois, which includes issues about over-redacting public registration data, and redacted fields that are missing anonymized email and/or webforms to contact domain name owners. (3) Missing required registrant email addresses. (4) Registries providing thick bulk registration data access files to ICANN instead of thin data. There are queries about the process for filing complaints alleging noncompliance, Hedlund said: The most relevant form for filing is here, but ICANN "will process complaints regardless of the form used."