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

Re:Whois public database is in breach of GDPR, according to ... by neya on Tuesday April 17, 2018 @11:21AM (#16859136)

I second Google domains. For some domains it's worth the money, for others not so much. But still, you get really good DNS and a really nice + simple interface and the fact that I don't need to remember another pair of username/password makes it well worth it.

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Re:Whois public database is in breach of GDPR, according to ... by curun1r on Tuesday April 17, 2018 @11:59PM (#16864507)

I've been hesitant to use Google for services like this after hearing about incidents where Google disabled everything associated with a Google account after detecting some violation of their ToS. I'd hate to lose my domain name because I, say, used the Maps API in some way that Google didn't appreciate. Google needs to be better at siloing their products before I'd consider using them for something that mission critical.

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Re:Whois public database is in breach of GDPR, according to ... by natch on Wednesday April 18, 2018 @11:39AM (#16868232)

>after detecting some violation of their ToS.

And often it's not a violation, it's an alleged, unspecified, un-counterable data point hidden in Google's cloud with no way for the user to determine what it might have been.

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Re:Whois public database is in breach of GDPR, according to ... by test6554 on Tuesday April 17, 2018 @01:27PM (#16860386)

But who knows who really owns the domain? Google Knows Who...

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Re:Whois public database is in breach of GDPR, according to ... by judge2020 on Tuesday April 17, 2018 @05:05PM (#16862321)

This is like saying that GoDaddy, Namecheap, or any of the countless number of other domain registrars own every domain registered with them. Performing a fraudulent transfer or DNS change would destroy their registry business and cause a PR nightmare.

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