Dear all, I am sharing this article published today by Domain Incite for information purposes, as I think is it is broadly relevant to our work: Beginning of the end for DomainTools? Court orders it to scrub Whois records http://domainincite.com/23401-beginning-of-the-end-for-domaintools-court-ord...

“… 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.

Notably — especially if you’re involved in the ongoing Whois reform debate — 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.”

(Emphasis added) Kind regards, Ayden Férdeline