[EURO-Discuss] Fwd: [ALAC-Announce] ICANN News Alert -- ICANN Files Legal Action in Germany to Preserve WHOIS Data

[Lutz Donnerhacke]

* Olawale Bakare wrote:
> ICANN Files Legal Action in Germany to Preserve WHOIS Data

My two cents.

That's very good news: ICANN does respect the new law. The older German law
containg very similar regulations was always ignored by ICANN.

So going to the court (especially in Germany) signals the registrars, that
ICANN is willing to accept an external decision rather than leaving the
registrar alone between ICANN accreditation rules an local law.