Interesting, but I assume domain registrants will have to opt-in to enable this.
The real shame is that they do not appear to have considered domain transfers, and the use of WHOIS to establish current registration details post-transfer. This could have quite significant implications for escrow companies and how they arbitrate non-compliance.
An even bigger shame is that it only took since 2010 to get to this point, so the idea of registrant data moving onto something like blockchain technology isn't at all likely before 2025...
This is as much digging as I have done. The decentralized blockchain concept is really interesting for upcoming future products and services. I have not read enough to discuss or understand it in depth, but the lack of centralized control sure has it’s benefits. But, Organizations and Govt’s are always hungry for control and it won’t be an easy change politically by decentralizing many facets of implementing its use. So often people believe their gov’t actually can protect them or *really* cares about them. Lol. Or feel private industry needs to be watched and regulated. The wheels on bus go round and round. Ha.
Tax it, regulate it, censor it, control it, charge for it, profit from it.... they all go hand in hand. It’s our world.
Not sure if you plowed through it all, but here are the predefined user access categories:
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-----BEGIN FORM-----
Value: domainNameControl
Description: Tasks within the scope of this purpose include creating
and managing and monitoring a registrant's own domain name, including
creating the domain name, updating information about the domain name,
transferring the domain name, renewing the domain name, deleting the
domain name, maintaining a domain name portfolio, and detecting
fraudulent use of the Registrant's own contact information.
-----END FORM-----
-----BEGIN FORM-----
Value: personalDataProtection
Description: Tasks within the scope of this purpose include
identifying the accredited privacy/proxy provider associated with a
domain name and reporting abuse, requesting reveal, or otherwise
contacting the provider.
-----END FORM-----
-----BEGIN FORM-----
Value: technicalIssueResolution
Description: Tasks within the scope of this purpose include (but are
not limited to) working to resolve technical issues, including email
delivery issues, DNS resolution failures, and web site functional
issues.
-----END FORM-----
-----BEGIN FORM-----
Value: domainNameCertification
Description: Tasks within the scope of this purpose include a
Certification Authority (CA) issuing an X.509 certificate to a
subject identified by a domain name.
-----END FORM-----
-----BEGIN FORM-----
Value: individualInternetUse
Description: Tasks within the scope of this purpose include
identifying the organization using a domain name to instill consumer
trust, or contacting that organization to raise a customer complaint
to them or file a complaint about them.
-----END FORM-----
-----BEGIN FORM-----
Value: businessDomainNamePurchaseOrSale
Description: Tasks within the scope of this purpose include making
purchase queries about a domain name, acquiring a domain name from a
registrant, and enabling due diligence research.
-----END FORM-----
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-----BEGIN FORM-----
Value: academicPublicInterestDNSRResearch
Description: Tasks within the scope of this purpose include academic
public interest research studies about domain names published in the
registration data service, including public information about the
registrant and designated contacts, the domain name's history and
status, and domain names registered by a given registrant (reverse
query).
-----END FORM-----
-----BEGIN FORM-----
Value: legalActions
Description: Tasks within the scope of this purpose include
investigating possible fraudulent use of a registrant's name or
address by other domain names, investigating possible trademark
infringement, contacting a registrant/licensee's legal representative
prior to taking legal action and then taking a legal action if the
concern is not satisfactorily addressed.
-----END FORM-----
-----BEGIN FORM-----
Value: regulatoryAndContractEnforcement
Description: Tasks within the scope of this purpose include tax
authority investigation of businesses with online presence, Uniform
Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP) investigation, contractual
compliance investigation, and registration data escrow audits.
-----END FORM-----
-----BEGIN FORM-----
Value: criminalInvestigationAndDNSAbuseMitigation
Description: Tasks within the scope of this purpose include reporting
abuse to someone who can investigate and address that abuse, or
contacting entities associated with a domain name during an offline
criminal investigation.
-----END FORM-----
-----BEGIN FORM-----
Value: dnsTransparency
Description: Tasks within the scope of this purpose involve querying
the registration data made public by registrants to satisfy a wide
variety of use cases around informing the general public.
-----END FORM-----
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