So you want to make money out of our data? And you're upset that EU law and RIPE's policies slows you down? Mr Michele Neylon Blacknight Solutions
You may not like the response (I would not like it if I were outside the US) but the data is bought and paid for by the US taxpayer. IANA is done via contract to the US Department of Commerce NTIA. I have filed a formal Freedom of Information Act under US law requesting access since it appears to me the US Government owns the data. US Taxpayers are paying ICANN/IANA to standardize this data and ensure stuff like this does not happen. ARIN (and all the RIR's) should be under the same requirements and should supply data to other countries as well. It is an issue of supplying an Internet function to all users not an "our data" vs. "their data" issue. But, yes, I want to continue to make money off the data. Just like your business wants to continue make money off the fact that domain registration was changed from a one-company monopoly to a distributed competitive system so that companies like your can combine domain registration and web hosting. Since most of the Internet was developed in the US by the US government (not to say there weren't significant contributions elsewhere) an argument could be made the rest of the world is profiting off USA data. But I see nothing wrong with that. The more people involved in commerce, competition, and making money off the Internet the better it will be and more and better services will be offered. But none of your customers actually need to register a domain through you, they can all the US based Network Solutions. I bet before competition is they blocked your company from registering domains I expect you would have had a fit. As it is you are profiting from a US-developed system. I have no problem when data laws are applied correctly. The situation we have here is that you have data that is mandated to be public while, at the same time, there are claims it needs to be protected. You can't do both, either it is public or protected. On top of that we have methods that claim to protect the data that do no such thing and it is costing me money and inconveniencing Internet users and serves no real purpose. Thank you