Whois public database is in breach of GDPR, according to European authorities

Re:Whois public database is in breach of GDPR, according to ... by chrismorgan on Tuesday April 17, 2018 @05:37AM (#16856792)

In my experience of recent years, addresses like abuse@, webmaster@, hostmaster@ and postmaster@ normally bounce. It’s a real nuisance when I want to report bugs in web systems, or in email systems where they’re doing enough things badly wrong that they trip (or get close to tripping) spam filters, et cetera.

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Re:Whois public database is in breach of GDPR, according to ... by giancarlostoro on Tuesday April 17, 2018 @07:02AM (#16857196)

Sadly I never setup any of those, usually only admin@ and then move on. To be fair I usually list one of the available emails on my sites where it makes sense, or provide some way of contacting me directly. I will definitely create those and forward them to admin@ from now on though. But the issue still remains as others said, now you can claim you never got an email.

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Re:Whois public database is in breach of GDPR, according to ... by rjsw on Tuesday April 17, 2018 @09:30AM (#16858061)

... including for ISPs, as I found out recently when trying to report some abuse.

I tried complaining to RIPE but they did nothing.

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