German court issues first GDPR ruling
The Register had an item about this recently [0]. If you read the whole thing and follow the links to the earlier articles it's somewhere in the uncanny valley between fascinating and horrifying. ICANN is a deeply conflicted organization. Basically they have been on notice about this since 2003 and have done nothing. As of now, they don't have a plan to resolve this. ICANN and any registrar with EU customers providing the whois service are non-compliant with the GDPR. So the EU based registrars have stopped and ICANN is sueing to force them to continue.<p>eta: One of the big reasons ICANN can't do the sensible thing and just discontinue whois is that it is heavily influenced by the big copyright corporations who presently can start enforcement against a domain by lookup in whois. Once whois is gone they will have to use legal process to compel registrars to reveal the identity of domain owners.<p>[0] <a href="https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/07/06/europe_no_to_icann_whois/" rel="nofollow">https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/07/06/europe_no_to_icann_...</a>