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Whois vs GDPR, latest news
- Subject: Whois vs GDPR, latest news
- From: fw at deneb.enyo.de (Florian Weimer)
- Date: Sat, 26 May 2018 21:14:16 +0200
- In-reply-to: <[email protected]> (Mark Andrews's message of "Wed, 23 May 2018 13:21:51 +1000")
- References: <[email protected]> <[email protected]> <CAHdm837=+Ng5GWJFOeMZ+8Zb5fkdmk9OPxhaqB3tKYrvcSbCCw@mail.gmail.com> <[email protected]>
* Mark Andrews:
> Domain whois is absolutely useful. Try contacting a site to report
> that their nameservers are hosed without it.
A lot of WHOIS servers do not show who's running the name servers, or
who maintains the data served by them. Those that do usually provide
information which is provably wrong.
> Remember that about 50% of zones have not RFC compliant name servers
> (the software is broken) and that newer resolver depend on default
> behaviour working correctly.
If WHOIS records were useful for contacting operators, you wouldn't
have to raise these issues on public lists periodically.