The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers wants more data host in whois databases, which contains information about the owner of a domain name is stored. The European Union has, however, objections.
Icann wants registrars to more tracking information in their whois database, such as Skype contact details and credit card information. Furthermore, companies that data every year to verify it with the customer and these two years must be preserved after the registration is ended, writes Infoworld. Incidentally, it is obvious that credit card details not will be shown in the query of whois data, such as that for other contact information, now is the case.
The whois databases were ever designed to provide contact information of domain name holders, so that they could be achieved with technical questions. In recent years, however, they are more and more used by law enforcement agencies to the holders of domain names to detect. The Icann, the dns system manages, want to now an extra step. At this time, in the whois databases all contact details of domain name holders. In the Netherlands the data are for non-providers, however, not to to see.
The Us Federal Trade Commission is happy with the proposal. “The internet should not be a haven for criminals,” says the director of the FTC, department of consumer protection. The umbrella organisation of European privacy regulators has been less and less happy with the proposal and fear that this privacy will affect.