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Don't make mistakes here :
The
GDRP is a
European regulation since 23/5/2018 that sadly has conequences for whois (what is shouldn't). Stricly speaking it's only for lists of people that companies own and that they have to take care what do with it. That's the primarly goal.
BUT
Strictly speaking somebody (a European) that DOESN'T WANT PRIVACY in the whois of a .com, .net etc... he owns ('or leases), should be able to do that (make his whois NOT PRIVATE).. And THAT they can't do that IS THE NEGATIVE POINT OF THE GDRP for the moment. They (Europe) want to protect privacy where people sometimes DON'T WANT privacy in many cases (in the whois). They use a bazooka to kill a mouse. They simply say : ALL has to be private in the whois according to the GDRP. This leaves their citizens no choice. It's an obligatory privacy for the whois. (for the moment, because that can change).
And the UK-citizens (probably even if Brexit comes- will have hidden whoisses. (I saw that on a list I got from Godaddy of all the countries involved).
(NOTE I also discoverred that .TV doesn't bother and shows the full whois anyway).
Last year I contacted already several European MP's about this (of my country), but sadly the GDRP goes about a lot more then the whois, and you don't immediately get the MP on the phone but his or her co-worker or assistent.
They always ask to put it on paper and send it through. And my time is limited. And there were also the European elections recently.
What I do know : After my explanation to the asistents of theseEuropean MP's, they all said : "This was not at all the intention of de GDRP, as we see it." It's an uninteded consequence of the GDRP, that has to be fixed. But it will take time to change that.
Because the GDRP is not a mini-law. It regulates a lot of things. (not only whois), and has some very good things in it.
I also called a newspaper-specialist about internet and related things (PC, smartphones, etc...). He wasn't friendly at all on the phone. He only saw that I spoke for my own intention or profit. He didn't see for instance that a non-private whois is better in many cases : If I see a website for instance, and I think it's malicous, I check the whois to know who I'm dealing with. But if nearly everything is private, you can't check that (unless there's a court order to release the whois).
I certainly will contact him again by email with the above article.
HOWEVER
A
UDPR is
something totally else existing already a long time, it's a
procedure from somebody where a person or company finds that the current user or owner of the domainname maliciously (or with false intent), registerred a domanname, alhough the complainer has already a Trademark. (It's not 100% 'having a trademark, it's more complicated then that; but I don' have time to explain it totally here), and this is not handled by a regular court, but by a special domainnamecourt (so an inner ICANNcourt) about that, residing in Switzerland.. To start a UDRP-procedure against somebody who has a domainname that should be yours (according to you, because lots of reasons you think you have for that name) costs 1.500 USD to begin such a procedure.against somebody (an you can't recuperate this money, even if you win the courtcase - or better the inner-ICANN-courtcase).