<html><head></head><body>Dear all,<div class=""><br class=""/></div><div class="">I am sharing this article published today by Domain Incite for information purposes, as I think is it is broadly relevant to our work:</div><div class=""><br class=""/></div><div class=""><b class="">Beginning of the end for DomainTools? Court orders it to scrub Whois records</b></div><div class=""><a href="http://domainincite.com/23401-beginning-of-the-end-for-domaintools-court-orders-it-to-scrub-whois-records" class="">http://domainincite.com/23401-beginning-of-the-end-for-domaintools-court-orders-it-to-scrub-whois-records</a></div><div class=""><br class=""/></div><blockquote style="margin: 0 0 0 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;" class=""><div class="">“… A Washington court yesterday handed down a preliminary injunction against the company, after New Zealand’s Domain Name Commission sued it in July for scraping and republishing its Whois in violation of its terms of service.</div><div class=""><br class=""/></div><div class="">Notably — especially if you’re involved in the ongoing Whois reform debate — <b class=""><u class="">Judge Robert Lasnik’s scathing order rubbished DomainTools’ claims that its historical Whois service provides a public interest benefit that outweighs the privacy interests of .nz registrants.</u></b>”</div><div class=""><i class=""><br class=""/></i></div></blockquote><div class="">(Emphasis added)</div><div class=""><br class=""/></div><div class="">Kind regards,</div><div class=""><br class=""/></div><div class="">Ayden Férdeline</div></body></html>