A .horse by any other name: ICANN's $500M expansion of the DNS namespace(i15s.org)
3 pointsby remcovm4 hours ago1 comment
  • schmudde4 hours ago
    > In June 2003, Europe’s data-protection authorities formally advised ICANN that individuals should be able to register domains without their details on a public register, drawing the line between natural persons, whom the law protects, and legal persons, whom it does not, even back then. Nothing structurally changed in the following fifteen years while the ICANN community argued endlessly about WHOIS.

    Losing meaningful WHOIS is a problem. I can't believe we cannot find a reasonable middle ground between privacy for individuals and transparency for organizations.

    • remcovm4 hours ago
      The middle ground is very straightforward - different levels of protection for natural persons and legal persons. This has been the legislative point of view all along. The ICANN community taking 15 years to not figure this out for gTLDs is kind of a tell how well the decision making works for that part.