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

[Remmy Nweke]

Hi Ayden
 I think WHOIS has been very useful especially in the area of cyber rights
advocacy/media rights activism by ensuring and helping to resolve domain
related use and misuse or even on conflict claims, it's VIP to know who
precisely is the owners and names behind the domains and attempt to know
why and for what purpose such domains were meant for at least for putting
the records straight and eventual profiling.
Regards
Remmy

On 4 Jul 2017 11:37, "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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