[INPUT REQUESTED] How do non-commercial Internet users use WHOIS?

[Olévié Kouami]

Hi all
Indeed NGOs use WHOIS.
As a registrant they need the use of WHOIS services. The RDS in
construction have to take it info account.
Cheers !
Olévié

Le 5 juil. 2017 06:40, "Nadira Alaraj" <nadira.araj at gmail.com> a écrit :

> Thanks for this exercise.
> I use the WHOIS for one of the attempts to
>  authenticate the registrant of the domain name in particular the national
> NGOs.
>
> Best
> Nadira
>
> On Jul 4, 2017 1:37 PM, "Ayden Férdeline" <icann at ferdeline.com> wrote:
>
>> Greetings, all-
>>
>> Along with Stephanie Perrin and Wendy Seltzer, I am a part of the ICANN
>> GDPR Compliance Consultation Group. This group has been formed to help
>> ICANN gather the information it needs to engage with data protection
>> authorities and to obtain actionable legal advice.
>>
>> I committed last week to keeping the NCSG updated on the activities of
>> the Consultation Group over the coming months.
>>
>> In our first meeting, we committed to participating in a data gathering
>> exercise to identify the existing users of WHOIS, what data elements they
>> use, and for what purpose. At this time we are not making the determination
>> as to whether a purpose is legitimate or illegitimate, though that call
>> will come, or if a data element comprises personally identifiable
>> information. For now we are simply trying to include all user categories to
>> get the most complete set of data points.
>>
>> We are interested in understanding how non-commercial Internet users, who
>> we in the NCSG purport to represent the interests of, use WHOIS. We have
>> conducted some informal consultation among our peers and have been provided
>> with a few use cases, but not too many. It is possible that end users do
>> not use WHOIS widely [and that has been the assumption that has informed
>> previous exercises like this one], but if you, as an end user, do use
>> WHOIS, we would be curious to know for what purpose and which data elements
>> you rely on. Please share your thoughts either on-list or with me
>> privately, if you prefer.
>>
>> We have a very short turnaround time for this exercise. Our next call is
>> this Thursday, and ICANN staff envision this entire task being completed by
>> next week. The time for you to provide input is thus now. Thanks!
>>
>> Best wishes,
>>
>> Ayden Férdeline
>> linkedin.com/in/ferdeline <http://www.linkedin.com/in/ferdeline>
>>
>>
>>
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