A researcher at Cisco's Talos security group recently discovered a bug that caused some Google Apps customers to have their personal information leaked via WHOIS domain listings for more than a year.

General Data Protection Regulation, or GDPR, is coming. Here's what it means, how it'll impact individuals and businesses. We'll see. It doesn't appear to me that ICANN's "Temporary Specification for ...

Zurich, Switzerland--(Newsfile Corp. - January 2, 2023) - The WHOIS for Web3 Domains and TLDs. Freename has launched the Web3 WHOIS: a unique domain explorer vertical in Web3. It queries wallets, ...

Internet regulators are pushing a controversial plan to restrict public access to WHOIS Web site registration records. Proponents of the proposal say it would improve the accuracy of WHOIS data and ...

The reign of WHOIS to define domain registration may be coming to a close in the face of security issues, leading to a growing number of fraudulent Transport Layer Security (TLS) certificates and ...

Probably the right idea, although a not-insignificant part of me want to go back to the requirement that WHOIS data be public and accurate. If nothing else, that creates some minimal accountability ...

A Google Apps bug leaked hidden WHOIS registrant information in the clear, putting close to 300,000 domain owners at risk for identity theft, phishing scams and more. Google has notified hundreds of ...

Security researchers who rely on data included in Web site domain name records to combat spammers and scammers will likely lose access to that information for at least six months starting at the end ...

When you register a domain, the registrar has your identifying information. However, you can choose domain privacy protection if you don’t want the names, addresses, phone numbers, etc. of website ...