I'm not sure where you got the word "target" from. In the context of GDPR what the EU does is they believe European people are their data subjects, they claim that personal data is things like IP addresses, and if you record information about these data subjects, like RIPE IPs in NGINX logs, then the EU feels that you are governed by them regardless of where you live or where your server is hosted. Which to me sounds like basically everyone who's plugged into the internet who hasn't configured their firewall to drop traffic from ips starting with 2, 5, 25, 31, 37, 46, 51, 53, 57, 62, 77, 78, 79, 80, 81, 82, 83, 84, 85, 86, 87, 88, 89, 90, 91, 92, 93, 94, 95, 109, 141, 145, 151, 176, 178, 185, 188, 193, 194, 195, 212, 213, or 217. In practice, the EU has explicitly exempted most of the operators who wouldn't be economical to fine, but it's pretty clear that the regulatory model is intended to operate like a whitelist, i.e. you're under their dominion unless they say you're not. What I found particularly amusing in the context of the DNS topic at hand. Is when people voiced concerns about normal people running DNS on a Linux router or something being impacted by the legislation, the EU's response in the document was like, no no trust us if you're doing something like running a DNS server on your "laptop" (yes they said laptop) then you're not going to be impacted. How reassuring!