Who Is Afraid of More Spams and Scams?
Summary: ICANN has proposed redacting registrant names, phone numbers, physical addresses and email addresses from all public WHOIS records globally to help registrars comply with GDPR, which takes effect May 25, 2018. ICANN conceded at a San Juan, Puerto Rico meeting that its planned accreditation system for vetting security researchers, journalists, law enforcement and IP rights holders probably would not be ready until December 2018, and GoDaddy has already begun redacting most registrant data for domains queried through third-party tools.
What you should know: EUROPOL's Gregory Mounier noted that a researcher monitoring a botnet with 10,000 connected domains would lose the ability to look those domains up, and ICANN advisory committee chair Rod Rasmussen put the odds of the vetting system still being designed a year later at 100 percent - leaving anti-spam and anti-fraud work without a core data source for many months.
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