As far as IP Addresses go (and domains too), currently GDPR recognizes the rights of individuals, not companies, which means that a company can be in the whois query, since it does not have the right to privacy.
My understanding is that this will only affect natural persons. > On 14 Apr 2018, at 20:19, Matt Harris <m...@netfire.net> wrote: > >> On Sat, Apr 14, 2018 at 12:14 PM, Rich Kulawiec <r...@gsp.org> wrote: >> >> The only people served by restriction on WHOIS availability are abusers >> and attackers, and the entities (e.g., registrars) who profit from them. >> > > Not that whois data for domain names has been particularly useful for the > past decade anyhow since most TLDs and registrars either provide for free, > or sell as an addon, "private" registration via some "proxy corporation" or > whatever. Domain name whois for most TLDs has not been the sort of > accountability measure that ICANN seems to think it is for a very long > time, at least in practice. > > I'd be much more concerned about RIPE's whois data for AS and IP address
