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>Oh, it' accomplished something. It entirely ruined WHOIS so that you can no longer just pull up domain contact information.

That was ICANN's decision. They implemented a scorched-earth policy in response to the GDPR rather than, say, showing corporate ownership information and hiding personal ownership information.

It was petty, and, I imagine, would not have happened if ICANN wasn't a US corporation.



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