Cira
Domain Name Whois Privacy Standard
Information
Have you heard about the new standard for domain name whois
privacy that the Canadian Internet Registration Authority or
the CIRA has recently announced? If not yet, then here it is.
Recently, numerous reports have noted that the Canadian
Internet Registration Authority has proposes a new standard for
the domain name whois privacy.
In their proposal, it is considered that the new policy for
domain name whois privacy will provide all the dot-ca domain
name owners with an enhanced domain name whois privacy
safeguards, bringing the domain name whois privacy policy in
line with the currently enacted Canadian privacy laws.
Today, the new proposed domain name whois standard becomes
the hottest subject of a general public consultation. And this
domain name whois policy will see the CIRA to pursue in
collecting complete information from dot-ca domain name owners,
however, it will create only a little amount of the details
that are available to the general public in its web-based
domain name whois lookup directory.
Along with such introduction, the Canadian Internet
Registration Authority itself have assumed that this new domain
name whois standard will ensure greater privacy protection
barriers under the dot-ca regime than are recently accessible
with so many other Internet domains just like the dot-com.
In some reports about this matter proposed by the CIRA, it
is noted that the president of the CEO of CIRA had mentioned
that this new standard for the domain name and whois privacy is
all about protecting the people’s fundamental right to privacy
in the virtual reality. Along with that statement, the
president of the CEO of CIRA also mentioned that since the
Internet is a wonderful and transformative force, it is then
right to take some great care to ensure that such dimension
serves the people, and not the other way around.
With such main reason for introducing this new standard for
the domain name whois privacy, the group further maintains that
this policy then sets a new standard among the Internet
domains.
And in particular, the new standard for domain name whois
privacy states that for those who register a dot-ca domain
name, it is only the domain name, registrar’s name,
registration date, “last change” date, notice about adjustments
in status of the domain name and server IP numbers/names will
be accessible through whois.
It further holds that the policy for organizations with
dot-ca designations will not be changed, so the same date will
continue to be accessible through whois. And lastly, the new
policy holds that CIRA will pursue to ensure that all
registration data is available to law enforcement agencies.
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