Austin Mirror

[Niels Dettenbach (Syndicat IT & Internet)]

Am 18. August 2019 01:56:39 MESZ schrieb "Richard L. Hamilton" <rlhamil at smart.net>:
>I don't have much luck getting useful info using whois on a hostname. 
>Try running just
>whois utexas.edu
>
>which won't necessarily get you the right person, but it will probably
>get you someone likelier to be able to point you to the right person.
>
>> On Aug 17, 2019, at 19:37, Al Varnell via macports-users
><macports-users at lists.macports.org> wrote:
>> 
>> Still isn't working after a week now.
>> 
>> I tried to track down the responsible party so I could give them a
>call, but all roads lead elsewhere:


Dear Richard,

"responsible party" (owner/admin-c) contacts are filtered from (very most) public WHOIS since monthes. With luck you get a abuse contact from any upstream provider.

most WHOIS services "only" provides access to official WHOIS Servers / Systems and deliver the complete response to the user (or a non WHOIS "route to", because the target does not provide/allow WHOIS protocol access or is att over rate limit). 

But until the new (EU / european / german driven) DSGVO / GDPA - the new law for "data protection", which even some US and other non-EU entities see to "affect" them, all "EU whois providers" (registries) plus "(m)any" on other countries removed any contact data from public WHOIS (these records are only available to i.e. registry members or domain owners (limited to their own data) now. Many entities in the US adopted that, but i don't know the real US law situation att for this.

I run a small "multi WHOIS" tool on the web ( http://whois.syndicat.com ) which is widely useless now.

It may be that Austin university is clearifying this for them att internally or they did not updated anything in their WHOIS service setup affected by these "changes".

This law is crazy, because it forces service providers (i.e. website owners) to publish a imprint with that data on their web pages, while destroying WHOIS as the real industry standard for this task). It helps criminals to hide while not "protecting" personal informational self determination.

So (at least this part) is a political coup where WHOIS providers afaik do not have any influence on anymore.


best regards,


niels.

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Niels Dettenbach
Syndicat IT & Internet
https://www.syndicat.com