Whois vs GDPR, latest news

Sat May 26 19:14:16 UTC 2018

* 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.