German court snubs ICANN's bid to compel registrar to slurp up data
Found on The Register on Thursday, 31 May 2018
Global domain name system overlord ICANN’s latest attempt to deal with compliance with European data protection law has been dealt a blow after a German court rejected its request to force a registrar to keep gathering people’s information.
The court said that although it was clear that having more data makes identifying and contacting the people behind a domain more reliable, ICANN had not demonstrated that storing this other data was indispensable for its purposes.
That result was just too obvious.