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 ...

WHOIS, the searchable “phonebook” of contact data for internet domains, may violate GDPR — or it may not. A lawsuit seeks to find out which it is. The WHOIS internet domain directory is at the center ...

While Congress continues to consider the merits of so-called Net neutrality, an even more soporific but vital Internet legal issue looms, with ramifications for every business online and every user of ...

ICANN, which has been under considerable pressure from governments and law enforcement agencies around the world to tighten up WHOIS data accuracy, appears to be moving steadily closer to finalising ...

ICANN authorized a study conducted by the National Physical Laboratory (NPL) in the United Kingdom, to analyze gTLD domain names to measure whether the percentage of privacy/proxy use among domains ...

In 2025, the ICANN community reached several milestones and saw key developments materialise, not least towards the new TLD round opening in April 2026. The three major meetings of the year occurred ...