How to solve the Whois problem?

How to solve the #Whois problem? #icann

At last week’s regional ICANN meeting in Amsterdam I was invited to speak on a panel entitled “Whois and Privacy Issues”. As a leading domain name registrar, NetNames is constantly struggling with Whois-related issues simply because our customers are too. As the database of domain registrants, Whois is like the Internet’s census. And just like the census, although most people agree it’s necessary, no-one is really happy with the way it’s done. What was Whois has been around for over 25 years now and in that time, it’s hardly changed. In technological terms, that’s astounding. Imagine if mobile phones had shown so little progress. Those lovely apps on our smartphones would still be real “clicky” buttons that we would use to… call someone! Just like many of the Internet’s key protocols, Whois wasn’t made for a world with more than 630 million websites, 250 million registered...

Full article: http://www.netnames.com/blog/2013/01/how-to-solve-the-who...