Proposed elimination of public DNS whois In 2013, the initial report of ICANN's Expert Working Group has recommended that the present form of Whois, a utility that allows anyone to know who has registered a domain name on the Internet, should be "abandoned". It recommends it be replaced with a system that keeps most registration information secret (or "gated") from most Internet users, and only discloses information for "permissible purposes". ICANN's list of permissible purposes includes domain name research, domain name sale and purchase, regulatory enforcement, personal data protection, legal actions, and abuse mitigation.Intellectual Property Solutions & Legal Support Services . CPA Global. Retrieved April 28, 2014. Whois has been a key tool of investigative journalists interested in determining who was disseminating information on the Internet.Sjmc: Common Sense Journalism. Jour.sc.edu. Retrieved April 28, 2014. The use of whois by journalists is not included in the list of permissible purposes in the initial report.
Proposed elimination of public DNS whois In 2013, the initial report of ICANN's Expert Working Group has recommended that the present form of Whois, a utility that allows anyone to know who has registered a domain name on the Internet, should be "abandoned". It recommends it be replaced with a system that keeps most registration information secret (or "gated") from most Internet users, and only discloses information for "permissible purposes". ICANN's list of permissible purposes includes domain name research, domain name sale and purchase, regulatory enforcement, personal data protection, legal actions, and abuse mitigation.Intellectual Property Solutions & Legal Support Services . CPA Global. Retrieved April 28, 2014. Whois has been a key tool of investigative journalists interested in determining who was disseminating information on the Internet.Sjmc: Common Sense Journalism. Jour.sc.edu. Retrieved April 28, 2014. The use of whois by journalists is not included in the list of permissible purposes in the initial report.