Russia to Halt Public Access to .RU Whois Data?

An anonymous reader writes "A Domain Tools blog post is reporting on a Russian newspaper article regarding a provision of Russian law that would prohibit public access or posting of Whois data for the .RU TLD without written permission. The Personal Data law, which the article states went into effect on January 30, 2007, will require compliance by RosNIIROSa (www.ripn.net) by 2010."

Comments

SO am I right in thinking...

[Churla]

That this means the single largest collection of hacking and spamming sites will now have protection against people finding out who even owns the domains they run from?

Works for me. I hate the fact that it's required.

[garcia]

There's absolutely no reason that in the US we must have valid contact information in that database. I use my work address, phone number, and my website spam GMail account on there because I don't want to deal w/the bullshit spam, letters in the mail, etc.

Whoever had the bright idea to mandate that for ending spam didn't think clearly. Perhaps Russia (while not their motivation for this move) is on the right track.

Sometimes the jokes write themselves

[ameyer17]

Currently online RosNIIROSa (www.ripn.net) on the WhoIs contact name and contact telephone owner of a site in the cloud. For example, you can find out what famous site compromat.ru owns Sergei Gorshkov

In Soviet Russia, compromat.ru own YOU!