discuss Does the GDPR render the WhoIs privacy protection services useless?

[Lucian Hodoboc]

Considering that the new European laws (the GDPR) impose all website owners to have either their own name, email address and phone number, or those of a data protection officer, clearly mentioned in the privacy policy and / or terms of service page, are the WhoIs privacy protection features offered by some domain providers basically useless?

Why would anyone want to pay an extra-fee to hide their name from WhoIs if GDPR requires that you make your name public on your website (or blog or forum)?

What do you think?

 

[soidav]

Many good registrars will not allow you to buy whois privacy (or warn you at least) if you are EU citizen.(since it's pointless and your whois information is masked anyhow per GDPR)

 

[viniproject09]

May be they have listed the data on website itself. In that case you can use Whois protection to protect from spammers. I do receive suspicious call when I register a domain.