Erica Ogg is a CNET News reporter who covers Apple, HP, Dell, and other PC makers, as well as the consumer electronics industry. She's also one of the hosts of CNET News' Daily Podcast. In her ...

Are your online trademark enforcements efforts being thwarted by inaccurate or inaccessible Whois data? If so, make your voices heard! Problems with the accuracy and completeness of the Whois global ...

With the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”) set to go into effect on May 25, 2018, many questions remain as to what entities that control and process data from EU citizens ...

Google leaked the complete hidden whois data attached to more than 282,000 domains registered through the company’s Google Apps for Work service, a breach that could bite good and bad guys alike. The ...

The EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is resulting in internet domain registrars hiding domain registration information to avoid fines for non-compliance. Domain registration information ...

More than five years after domain name registrars started redacting personal data from all public domain registration records, the non-profit organization overseeing the domain industry has introduced ...

It’s a question that continues to plague the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), domain name registrars, the U.S. Congress and myriad federal agencies: How best to ensure the ...

A flaw in Google's Apps domain renewal system has resulted in the exposure of over 280,000 hidden WHOIS records. On Thursday, Cisco security researchers reported that a problem in the Google Apps ...

After an election where data security became a regularly debated hot topic, you'd think everyone in politics would, for lack of better poetry, have their shit together. But of course, you'd be wrong.

The Federal Trade Commission has made a pitch for open access to Whois, saying the databases are a key weapon in its fight against spyware and other Internet fraud. The agency on Tuesday called access ...

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