The Regional Court of Bonn denied the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers’ attempt to force domain registrar EPAG to gather information, MediaPost reports. The German court determined the request to obtain the data, which includes names, email addresses and other registrants’ data, would not comply with applicable laws, such as the EU General Data Protection Regulation. The court found information beyond the domain holder’s name was “not previously necessary” for ICANN, adding it cannot follow the tying of “the so-called ‘WHOIS’ system to international agreements on trademark registers” as a relief claim. Editor's Note: IAPP Staff Writer Molly Hulefeld wrote about the overhauling of WHOIS ahead of the GDPR in this piece for The Privacy Advisor.
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