Erica Ogg is a CNET News reporter who covers Apple, HP, Dell, and other PC makers, as well as the consumer electronics industry. She's also one of the hosts of CNET News' Daily Podcast. In her ...

Are your online trademark enforcements efforts being thwarted by inaccurate or inaccessible Whois data? If so, make your voices heard! Problems with the accuracy and completeness of the Whois global ...

Whois, an online database that contains personal information about Internet domain name holders, is a major contributor to identity theft and defies advice from the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), ...

Google leaked the complete hidden whois data attached to more than 282,000 domains registered through the company’s Google Apps for Work service, a breach that could bite good and bad guys alike. The ...

With the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”) set to go into effect on May 25, 2018, many questions remain as to what entities that control and process data from EU citizens ...

More than five years after domain name registrars started redacting personal data from all public domain registration records, the non-profit organization overseeing the domain industry has introduced ...

The EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is resulting in internet domain registrars hiding domain registration information to avoid fines for non-compliance. Domain registration information ...

Certificate authorities and browser makers are planning to end the use of WHOIS data verifying domain ownership following a report that demonstrated how threat actors could abuse the process to obtain ...

General Data Protection Regulation, or GDPR, is coming. Here's what it means, how it'll impact individuals and businesses. We'll see. It doesn't appear to me that ICANN's "Temporary Specification for ...

APNIC said the hashed passwords were accidentally included in the category of downloadable Whois information back in June 2017, during an upgrade of the APNIC Whois database. The organization has ...

Shane Tews is the president of Logan Circle Strategies. You can follow her @ShaneTews. This May, in a regulatory sea change for data privacy and protection, the ...

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