Re: ICANN GDPR lawsuit

2018-06-05 Thread Badiei, Farzaneh
And here is the court decision, https://www.icann.org/en/system/files/files/litigation-icann-v-epag-request-court-order-prelim-injunction-redacted-30may18-en.pdf gotta love the German wisdom: The Application for preliminary injunction of May 25, 2018 is rejected at the expense of the Applican

Re: Whois vs GDPR, latest news

2018-05-21 Thread Badiei, Farzaneh
The privacy implications that WHOIS had for domain name registrants was not only acknowledged by Europe. For a long time we were in a battle to get minimum privacy for domain registrants and the privacy proxy services provided some sort of relief. But the intellectual property interest with the

Re: Is WHOIS going to go away?

2018-04-24 Thread Badiei, Farzaneh
Dear John, The days when some in the technical community could just discard others arguments by saying that "[you] have no idea how the Internet works" have long passed. I will not get intimidated nor will I step back. Old tricks, won't work, it's as old as the dysfunctional WHOIS and will di

RE: Is WHOIS going to go away?

2018-04-24 Thread Badiei, Farzaneh
“Granted there's that gray area of dissident political movements etc. but their full time job is protecting their identity.” You think? The median number of domain name registration that used privacy proxy service in the Middle East is 24%. See the DNS Market study: https://www.icann.org/en/syst