General Data Protection Regulation
 

This is a law coming in effect in EU 25th of May - General Data Protection Regulation

From what I understand this is big news, apart from the obvious points I wonder about WHOIS records and domains.

Has anyone catched the info explaining about personal data and WHOIS records, if I'm not mistaken personal data will no longer be visible to other individuals. Will this have any effect at all on the big domain registrars?

I'm in doubt of the transparency of it and seeing what EU is today what will they achieve with this specific part of the regulation?

I've received something like this from one registrar... more or less that now regardless of the whois privacy feature (which was free anyway) my data will be protected.

I wonder how it will apply to GoDaddy who was charging like almost 10 bucks per domain for whois privacy. I moved all my domains from them cause of their pricing with no discounts for renewals.

Only for EU residents. The rest of us keep getting fucked. And you do have to request it.

It appears to be a massive job creator

from what I read, it will apply to everybody...

Since English is your second language you might want to read it again in your native Russian :2 cents:

https://forbes.com: yes-the-gdpr-will-affect-your-u-s-based-business

I probably speak english better than you do :2 cents::thumbsup

Guess I'll be reading some more on this topic

There's a good chance you do, based on history...:1orglaugh

Indians educated in the UK speak better English than i do, and im a Brit. But i still cannot fucking understand a word they say :1orglaugh:1orglaugh:1orglaugh:1orglaugh:1orglaugh

If this turns out to be true, it would be great as my registration company charges a lot of extra $$ to keep my info hidden, too much to make it worthwhile. :thumbsup

This is a e-mail from NameSilo so I think all companies will do same.
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Hello Biggus Dickus,
We have updated our Privacy Policy to make it easier for you to understand what information we collect and why we collect it. Furthermore, we have taken steps to improve our default privacy settings to help customers better protect their personal information. We're making these changes as new data protection laws come into effect in the EU/EEA, and we're taking the opportunity to make improvements for NameSilo customers around the world.

So what's changing?

All existing customer accounts will be updated to utilize our Free WHOIS Privacy by default for all new domain registrations and transfers. This change will not affect existing domains in your account. This change only affects the default WHOIS privacy setting for new domains that you register/transfer in the future.
All new customer accounts will default to utilizing WHOIS privacy for new domains
Any domains added to your cart before you are logged in will default to using WHOIS privacy
We will alert you during the checkout process if domains in your cart are not utilizing WHOIS privacy
We've improved the way we describe our practices and how we explain the options you have to update, manage, and delete your data
Any domain contacts which specify a country in the EU/EEA will need to opt-in to disabling WHOIS privacy via an email sent to each contact which explains their options and asks for their consent to have their information published in public WHOIS
Is there anything you need to do?

If you do not want new domains in your account to utilize WHOIS privacy by default, simply login, click "Account Maintenance", and set "Default Privacy" to "No".
If any of your domain contacts specify a country in the the EU/EEA and you do not want WHOIS privacy used, please click here to opt-in to our privacy policy. If you have any domain contacts in the EU/EEA listed on that page which have not opted-in, any associated domains will be automatically set to use WHOIS Privacy on Thursday, May 24, 2018.
We'd like to thank you for your continued patronage, and please always feel free to let us know with any questions, concerns or ideas for improvement.

Thanks,

The NameSilo Team
[email protected]

Received an email from GoDaddy.... hahaha! I knew those mofos won't let it go easy..



So it looks like they claim their paid privacy feature is even better now and they encourage customers to still pay for it. Instead of just letting it go and making it free service like almost every other registrar does.

If your site is available to Europeans and you collect any personal data from them you will need to publish your name and address on your site, anyhow. It doesn't matter if it is available in the whois info or not.

Just checked LA Times from Europe:


Unfortunately, our website is currently unavailable in most European countries. We are engaged on the issue and committed to looking at options that support our full range of digital offerings to the EU market. We continue to identify technical compliance solutions that will provide all readers with our award-winning journalism.


And there you have it.. LA times says Fuck you GDPR...

Exactly the same stuff as the cookie law. I almost have to fill in a form on some websites to even be able to browse it.

Yep, only difference how before was just info required , and now it is required to ask for permission first.
In theory, you could bypass that requirement by showing message how by loading site you gave consent but still give choice to delete cookies. But anyway, i fail to see how blocking entire EU is easier then deploying this thing.

got one email from Namecheap as well... Free whois guard

https://www.namecheap.com/security/w...n=wigwithmay29

Needs to go the way of 2257, Prohibition and slavery.

I get annoyed at sites that warn me they are using cookies.
I'm like; who DaFuck don't know that already.

why not using free whois when registrar offers it?