<div dir="ltr">>><span style="font-size:12.8px">Non Sequitur - nameservers are necessary for the domain to function, eliminating them from whois for whatever reason will not impede that function in the slightest, and even if they were to be classified as private data it does not mean they cannot be legitimately disseminated subject to authorisation and control.</span><div><span style="font-size:12.8px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px">The key word he</span>re is "on the basis of privacy". Name servers in WHOIS seem to be mostly vestigial and can likely be dropped, but if the reason is because of privacy, then that is crazy. That means the registrar can't disseminate the data for the same reason it can't disseminate their customers' credit card data- it's private. This breaks the Internet.</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, May 31, 2017 at 10:01 PM, Rob Golding <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rob.golding@astutium.com" target="_blank">rob.golding@astutium.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class=""><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
but eliminating nameservers on the basis of privacy means the<br>
registrars won't be able to disseminate it at all<br>
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Non Sequitur - nameservers are necessary for the domain to function, eliminating them from whois for whatever reason will not impede that function in the slightest, and even if they were to be classified as private data it does not mean they cannot be legitimately disseminated subject to authorisation and control.<span class=""><br>
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and it will<br>
literally break the Internet.<br>
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Repeating this utter nonsense ad nauseum will not ever make it correct.<span class=""><br>
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Your references don't change the fact of how DNS resolution works.<br>
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DNS doesn't use WHOIS at *ANY* stage, having or not having whois make zero difference to resolution.<br>
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Removing any/all data elements from whois, for example nameservers (and there are a lot of good reasons to do so) will in no way break anything about how the internet _functions_ because whois is not necessary for the functioning - constantly regurgitating absurdities about how the sky will fall isn't going make it true.<br>
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There's an article on how Microsoft think it actually works referenced earlier in the thread, I've not read it, but I very much doubt it says something as completely stupid as "gets data from whois"<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
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Rob</font></span><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><br>
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