Reforms to the WHOIS database in order to address growing privacy concerns have once again come to a halt, leaving a seven-year-old debate to continue on how much personal information should be ...

Internet regulators are pushing a controversial plan to restrict public access to WHOIS Web site registration records. Proponents of the proposal say it would improve the accuracy of WHOIS data and ...

For privacy advocates following the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, the international body overseeing domain registrations on Wednesday is considering adopting internet real ...

Tech industry lawyer Mark Bohannon frequently taps a group of searchable databases called Whois to figure out who may be behind a Web site that distributes pirated software or tricks visitors into ...

A working group set up by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) to thrash out differences over proposed privacy changes to the WHOIS database stopped work last week with ...

A researcher at Cisco's Talos security group recently discovered a bug that caused some Google Apps customers to have their personal information leaked via WHOIS domain listings for more than a year.

Companies around the globe are scrambling to comply with new European privacy regulations that take effect a little more than three months from now. But many security experts are worried that the ...

A flaw in Google's Apps domain renewal system has resulted in the exposure of over 280,000 hidden WHOIS records. On Thursday, Cisco security researchers reported that a problem in the Google Apps ...

If you head over to a Whois service and search for wired.com, you'll see that this site is registered to our publisher Condé Nast at One World Trade Center in New York City. If you have your own ...

A working group set up by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) to thrash out differences over proposed privacy changes to the WHOIS database stopped work last week with ...