Whois? No, Whowas: Incoming Euro privacy rules torpedo domain registration system
Found on The Register on Thursday, 26 October 2017
GDPR will kick in next May, and, critically, it impacts not just European business but any business that holds data on European citizens. Put most simply, GDPR requires businesses to get the explicit consent of users to gather, store and, particularly, publish their information.
Intellectual property lawyers prefer a system that provides them with details on who owns a particular domain name (especially given widespread copyright infringement online) to one that excludes them from such information altogether.
Given that there are already whois services which hide the owner's identity and only offer an indirect way to contact this person, it cannot be that bad. In fact, it would be a good change.