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

[Niels ten Oever]

Can you give examples? I find that in important cases, WHOIS data is
always wrong, or data on sites is more reliable.

Cheers,

Niels

On 07/06/2017 10:32 AM, Remmy Nweke wrote:
> 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
> <mailto: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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Niels ten Oever
Head of Digital

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