Domain Name Wire for Ardhi - The WHOIS overhaul

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Domain Name Wire for Ardhi
June 26, 2013
The WHOIS overhaul
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Welcome to the DomainNameWire.com newsletter.

If the designers of the domain name system knew then what we
know now, they would have done a lot of things differently.

One of these things would be a different design for Whois.

Yesterday, an expert working group released a provacative report
about what the directory for domain name registrants could look
like in the future.

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Is the era of unrestricted access to Whois over? What does this
mean for domain registrars and domain investors?

It could mean a lot.

For registrars, the burden of managing Whois is already shifting
a bit with thick whois, which will be expanded with new TLDs.

Domain investors have a lot to lose in a Whois system change.
Restricted access to whois could hamper the domain aftermarket.

Fortunately, the working group has considered use cases in which
domain investors access Whois. This could actually be a win for
domain investors, as more historical information may be available
in a WHOWAS system.

I urge all members of the domain ecosystem to pay close attention to
the initial report. A comment period is now open:

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