A researcher at Cisco's Talos security group recently discovered a bug that caused some Google Apps customers to have their personal information leaked via WHOIS domain listings for more than a year.

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 ...

The reign of WHOIS to define domain registration may be coming to a close in the face of security issues, leading to a growing number of fraudulent Transport Layer Security (TLS) certificates and ...

Zurich, Switzerland--(Newsfile Corp. - January 2, 2023) - The WHOIS for Web3 Domains and TLDs. Freename has launched the Web3 WHOIS: a unique domain explorer vertical in Web3. It queries wallets, ...

Internet regulators are pushing a controversial plan to restrict public access to WHOIS Web site registration records. Proponents of the proposal say it would improve the accuracy of WHOIS data and ...

Security researchers who rely on data included in Web site domain name records to combat spammers and scammers will likely lose access to that information for at least six months starting at the end ...

Google's John Mueller said that having a private whois domain name registration status does not change how Google trusts the site. It really does not impact the site's rankings in Google Search. He ...

The agency that runs the Internet’s technical infrastructure—ICANN—is mulling a plan pushed by the entertainment industry that could dramatically limit the use of proxy registration services that mask ...

Probably the right idea, although a not-insignificant part of me want to go back to the requirement that WHOIS data be public and accurate. If nothing else, that creates some minimal accountability ...