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Re:Whois public database is in breach of GDPR, according to ... by jessaustin on Tuesday April 17, 2018 @09:04PM (#16863788)
It doesn't seem that .us addresses would be subject to GDPR? One could see .com as an edge case, even though really Europeans should just appreciate the fact we let them on our internet b^), but .us is not in doubt.
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Re:Whois public database is in breach of GDPR, according to ... by fwn on Wednesday April 18, 2018 @09:43AM (#16867298)
True for .us. however: There is currently (as far as I understand) no way to hide whois data for .de (German) domains. So that might get interesting.
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