When security goes right

Re:When security goes right by meowface on Thursday December 25, 2014 @09:29PM (#8797800)

There are rumors that they plan on disallowing WHOIS privacy in the future.

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Re:When security goes right by talideon on Friday December 26, 2014 @10:10PM (#8801524)

Doubtful. I know people in the ICANN registrar constituency, and to the best of my knowledge there have been no discussions of this.

Now, what is the case is that there's been a crackdown, due to pressure from law enforcement agencies, on incorrect details being set on domains. However, this actually has no effect on what's published in WHOIS because the only actual requirement is that the registrar have the correct details for the domain on record and escrowed. So long as the registrar has correct details, the registrar can mask the detail in WHOIS however is applicable, so long as it's clear that WHOIS privacy is in place.

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Re:When security goes right by keithpeter on Friday December 26, 2014 @02:59PM (#8800101)

http://www.nominet.org.uk/uk-domain-names/about-domain-names...

In the UK whois privacy is only for non-trading individuals (i.e. for personal Web sites) and always has been I think.

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Re:When security goes right by talideon on Friday December 26, 2014 @10:13PM (#8801529)

They're not alone in that: for instance, .eu and .be domains with registrant contacts without an organisation name set have only very minimal details published in WHOIS.

Then again, it's totally up to ccTLD operators to decide on what details are published in WHOIS. gTLDs (those longer then two letters long) have to stick to ICANN's policies.

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