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The whois service for the legacy top-level domain for Germany (.de) is one of the most fucked up things on the internet.

For years now they've restricted the whois service to notice you about their website information service (https://denic.de/en, you run a search and get information about the domain) which already cost you an unnecessary amount of time if you simply want to lookup something.

A while back they changed it so that you need to state whether you want to look it up fotr informative purposes or business purposes, then they changed it so that you need to supply a reason in a text box.

The new (GDPR) way is that you only get the connectivity status ("connect", "free") via whois and the nameservers on the website (without supplying a reason, which actually is an improvement). Everything this either is for executive authorities or the domain owner (by entering their mail address or zip code).

Germany - the land of "We can opt out of any standard because we can and since theaws changed we can also behave like dickbutts".

Adding the GDPR now only fed the trolls even more.

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  • 1
    6y
    @Alice not long ago it was the same in Brazil, where you had to make your government ID number publicly associated with the domain along with your full name, phone number and physical address if you weren't buying the domain as a company. Seriously, WTF.
  • 1
    6y
    >>Everything this either is for executive authorities or the domain owner (by entering their mail address or zip code).<<

    wait.. so if you know mail and zip code you can still get the info? sounds flawed, especially with the example given by alice
  • 1
    6y
    The old whois was actually a big reason to avoid .de-domains in favour of ones that allow private whois.

    And the imprint thing for bloggers in Germany is easy to bypass - just don't use a .de domain and don't host in Germany.
  • 1
    6y
    @JoshBent you enter the email-address or ZIP, and if that matches, an email will be sent to the email address that is registered with Denic, containing a link to the whois data.
  • 0
    6y
    @Fast-Nop doesn't make sense if it's sent to the owner? why would somebody want to request the data and it get sent to the owner.
  • 1
    6y
    @JoshBent because he IS the owner and wants to check whether the whois is correct. All others can only access the data as per these regulations:

    https://denic.de/en/service/...
  • 0
    6y
    @Fast-Nop ah, I see, that's great then
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