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Re:Whois public database is in breach of GDPR, according to ... by kuschku on Tuesday April 17, 2018 @10:11AM (#16858439)
An email address is no Vorladungsfähige Adresse. You can't sue that, you can't send a Gerichtsvollzieher to it, and you can't seize the owners assets with it.

If I want to send an Abmahnung to a website owner, because they publicly defame me — as has happened before — then I need something stronger than an email address. Or I need to invoke the right to be forgotten, but I don't want to do so, I prefer having a way to eliminate the source.

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Re:Whois public database is in breach of GDPR, according to ... by gsich on Tuesday April 17, 2018 @06:18PM (#16862800)
You are talking about an Impressum. No need for that info in the whois.
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Re:Whois public database is in breach of GDPR, according to ... by kuschku on Tuesday April 17, 2018 @07:29PM (#16863245)
The topic was Impressum. The user starting this subthread complained about Impressum.
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