On 5/3/2018 2:20 PM, Marc Goldman via mailop wrote:
Since GDPR has pushed for a public WHOIS to disappear (even though
ICANN seems to be resistant), how do those of you in the email world
feel this will affect those of us who believe in the best practice of
having clients/users turn off WHOIS Privacy on their domains?
E.G we have - for both our ESP & SMTP service, made WHOIS PRIVACY a
validation check upon setting up and sending and those with WHOIS
PRIVACY enabled are unable to send through our service(s) until its
disabled.
I would guess this would now be a null and void policy or one that
will soon be impossible to enforce/rely upon?
Your opinions/comments are appreciated.
[resent - i never saw this get to mailop]
Marc,
I agree with what Anna and Michael just said. I'll add 3 things:
(1) I don't think that the changes to WHOIS are going to go near as far
as a fully private whois, so there will still be SOME
benefits/transparency for a sender to NOT make their WHOIS private.
Sadly, criminals who try to obfuscate their WHOIS in the new system -
will have an easier time. But those who are honest and don't have
anything to hide will still provide the world beneficial information due
to what the changes will CONTINUE to show. So these changes don't go
near as far as what a current private whois does. (at least, this is
what I understand to be the case)
(2) At invaluement, we'll still count it against a sender if their WHOIS
is private (or switches to private). (we would never blacklist on this
alone, but it can be a factor) At the least, a sender's whois not being
private is at least one measure showing that they are at least
attempting to be a transparent and honest part of the email ecosystem,
and not trying to hide in the shadows.
(3) What Spamhaus said here... is VERY strong. I can't imagine them
backing that far away from this, if at all, just due to just a portion
of the data in all whois records getting hidden:
https://www.spamresource.com/2010/02/whois-privacy-protect-what-spamfighters.html
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Rob McEwen
https://www.invaluement.com
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