ICANN GDPR lawsuit

Tue Jun 5 00:44:46 UTC 2018

On Mon, Jun 4, 2018 at 9:34 PM, Dan Hollis <goemon at sasami.anime.net> wrote:

> On Mon, 4 Jun 2018, Rubens Kuhl wrote:
>
>> On Fri, Jun 1, 2018 at 1:56 AM, Hank Nussbacher <hank at efes.iucc.ac.il>
>> wrote:
>> Usually, identifying attackers at other online services is a duty on RIR
>> directories, and even the RIPE one is not suffering that many changes due
>> to GDPR.
>>
>> Also, GDPR doesn't prevent law enforcement access.
>>
>
> It might be desirable to provide enough contact information to mitigate
> issues before it has to end up in the hands of law enforcement.
>

Specifically on gTLD domains GDPR effects, domain contacts will still be
reachable thru a web-form or short-term anonymised email. European ccTLDs
adopted a myriad of solutions but they usually trend towards maintaining
reachability somehow.

> black hats and bullet proof hosting are definitely going to enjoy using
> gdpr to hide behind though.

Like they already do signing up for domain privacy services ? Currently,
only the poor criminals or the newbie ones do not elect privacy when
registering domains.

Rubens