[notRobot]

Agreed 100%. I'm a huge fan of removing all PII from whois info. Get a subpoena if you want that data. Otherwise next thing you know they'll be demanding registrant info for "facebookisevil.com" because it "infringes on our trademarks!!!"

[jfengel]

Isn't "getting a subpoena" basically what they're doing?

[gpm]

I think normally they would sue the people who registered the domain to get a subpoena, not namecheap itself.

[jfengel]

I thought the point was that they're suing namecheap to get the names of the people who registered the domain, because namecheap was serving as an anonymity service.

[rstupek]

Actually all PII information is already removed from whois info. I think it was a consequence of gdpr

[notRobot]

Nah namecheap made whoisguard free for all long before GDPR if memory serves correctly

[rstupek]

They may have but regardless of them doing so, gdpr resulted in the making of whois data not generally available to anyone.