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Re:Sunsetting Whois by greyface- on Sunday March 16, 2025 @09:44PM (#43384403)
Domains point to IPs, and IPs already have subpoenable ownership records at RIRs. In the real estate metaphor: we have property ownership records, but we don't have records of every rental tenancy.
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Re:Sunsetting Whois by IncRnd on Sunday March 16, 2025 @11:17PM (#43384860)
That's not true. Those are registration records NOT ownership records. People do not purchase ip address or domains. They register them for temporary use.
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Re:Sunsetting Whois by greyface- on Sunday March 16, 2025 @11:30PM (#43384926)
For non-legacy allocations, point taken (but my original comment still stands if you replace "ownership" with "registration"). For legacy allocations, it's more complicated.

See: Are IP Address Allocations Property? (2014) https://www.ethanheilman.com/x/19/index.html

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Re:Sunsetting Whois by RIMR on Sunday March 16, 2025 @09:51PM (#43384447)
This is completely untrue.

https://www.zdnet.com/home-and-office/networking/court-rules...

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Re:Sunsetting Whois by greyface- on Sunday March 16, 2025 @09:57PM (#43384482)
This article is not inconsistent with my comment. The court rejected a subpoena against the ISP for the identity of the user of the IP, not against the RIR for the identity of the owner of the IP. This is like the court rejecting a subpoena against the landlord for their tenant's identity.
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