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LogicX on April 25, 2018 | parent | context | favorite | on: BGP leaks and cryptocurrencies

Except WHOIS is (likely) going away next month (at least in RIPE) due to GDPR.

kuschku on April 25, 2018 [–]

It is not going away, it never was, never will.

DENIC has been compliant with the GDPR for months already, and its WHOIS database is still running – you just can’t expose all fields of the WHOIS to any unauthenticated viewer.

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