ICANN pays to push Whois case to European Court of Justice
Found on The Register on Friday, 15 June 2018
The California based non-profit said this week it would appeal a decision against it in German court but also, bizarrely, announced that it would also appeal that court's decision to the European Court of Justice if it gave the wrong answer.
Seemingly unaware of how the legal system works, ICANN criticized that court decision less for its actual decision than for the fact that it hadn't done what ICANN wanted: to state definitively what the correct interpretation of the GDPR legislation is when it comes to the Whois service.
Whois should have died years ago. Nothing good came ever out of it, except spam, spam and more spam to domain owners.