As I mentioned several months ago, the .nz ccTLD registry Domain Name Commission is taking legal action against several companies that have been harvesting whois data for years. They were granted a preliminary injunction and were in court in person a few days ago. You can watch the legal pleadings from both sides in the video below: Personally I find the arguments from … [Read more...] about New Zealand’s ccTLD Taking on DomainTools in Court – Video
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New Zealand’s Domain Name Commission Sues DomainTools for Privacy Violation
The New Zealand Domain Name Commission is taking legal action in Seattle against DomainTools. DomainTools, according to the filing, is in breach of the whois terms of use and by collecting and storing the whois data of .nz domains. The filing goes into a lot of detail about how the New Zealand country code operator has developed its whois policy over the years … [Read more...] about New Zealand’s Domain Name Commission Sues DomainTools for Privacy Violation