Latta, Schakowsky Raise Domain Name Concerns With NTIA
NTIA shouldn’t amend GoDaddy’s contractual obligations for domain name management in a way that caters to the EU’s general data protection regulation, Reps. Bob Latta, R-Ohio, and Jan Schakowsky, D-Ill., wrote the agency in a letter dated Dec. 14. The…
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letter raised concerns about “ongoing efforts to modify the contractual obligations for WHOIS between” the U.S. and GoDaddy for “management” of the U.S.’s "country code top-level domain (ccTLD), .US WHOIS" (see 2112170062). Congress has been hard at work for more than a decade on privacy issues, they wrote NTIA Administrator Alan Davidson: “Until Congress passes a privacy bill that addresses these issues, it is not appropriate for the NTIA to pursue the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) position over the United States’ existing position.” NTIA and GoDaddy didn’t comment.