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by belorn 460 days ago
Usually, the need to use an ID is only for private persons (and usually only if they are nationals). Anyone else should not need that. The general theory is that a nation can only verify data that they themselves have.

Some ccTLD's have rules against registrations by people not located within the country that owns the ccTLD, in which case a valid national id or organization number would be required. From what I can see, .es does not have that requirement.
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tecleandor 459 days ago
Se my other comment [0] but I meant for accessing the WHOIS service, not for registering. If you try any type of WHOIS request you'll be replied with a message sending you to nic.es site, where you'll be presented with a captcha if you try to get information about a registered domain.

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  0: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43392356
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teddyh 459 days ago
Requiring a captcha is not even close to requiring a national ID.
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tecleandor 458 days ago
If you read my linked comment, I'm talking about using the WHOIS service [0] ICANN is sunsetting that's been talked about in the post, not about getting domain information in the web.

The only way (that I've found) to use the WHOIS service with the .es ccTLD is whitelisting a fixed IP address with your national ID at a government site [1]. And even then, you're rate limited to 10 queries per minute.

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  0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WHOIS
  1: https://sede.red.gob.es/es/procedimientos/solicitud-de-acceso-servicio-de-whois-por-el-puerto-43
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