ICANN Launches Service to Help With WHOIS Lookups
Summary: ICANN launched the Registration Data Request Service (RDRS) at the end of November 2023, a centralized portal for submitting registration data requests to participating registrars, more than five years after registrars began redacting names, addresses, phone numbers and emails from public WHOIS records in May 2018 in response to GDPR. Participation is voluntary, 56 entities were working with the RDRS at the time, and the service cannot be used to request WHOIS data for country-code top-level domains such as .de or .nz.
What you should know: The service does not guarantee access to the requested data, and all disclosure happens outside the system between registrar and requestor, so the outcome still rests with registrars that treat WHOIS response as a cost center. EU member states have until October 2024 to implement NIS2, which requires registrars to keep more accurate WHOIS records and respond within as little as 24 hours to requests tied to phishing, malware and spam.
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