German Regional Court Refers ICANN GDPR Case to Higher Court
A German court will refer ICANN's case against domain registrar EPAG (see 1806220001) to the Higher Regional Court, ICANN blogged Thursday. The injunctive action, filed in May in the Regional Court in Bonn, asked for "assistance in interpreting" the EU…
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general data protection regulation after EPAG said it will no longer collect registrants' administrative and technical contact information when it sells new domain names, for fear of violating the regulation (see 1805280001). The Regional Court ruled against ICANN, which then appealed for an order requiring EPAG to reinstate collecting the data. The court re-evaluated the decision with comments from EPAG and will now refer the case to the higher court.