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I fully support any campaign against the .org TLD hijacking but it would be good to know who's behind that savedotorg.org domain name. A whois search gives me 'Registrant Organization: Data Protected'.

I'd like to know to whom are we giving our email addresses, and what are they going to do with them?

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That could be due to GDPR. Some European registry companies believe GDPR makes the collection and publishing of WHOIS data illegal.

ICANN is currently suing a Tucows company in Germany [1] over their refusal to comply with WHOIS data collection, and ICANN published a Temporary Specification that allows/requires every other registry to hide WHOIS data globally pending the result of the GDPR court case [2].

Of course, that doesnt prevent savedotorg.org from posting their own "About Us" webpage explaining who they are.

[1] https://www.icann.org/news/announcement-2018-05-25-en

[2] https://www.icann.org/resources/pages/gtld-registration-data...

Yes, an "About Us" page should be included on that site at least.

AFAIK GDPR protects personal data only, so if the savedotorg.org registrant is an entity of any kind then it shouldn't be any problem publishing that info.

They've added an "About this site" page now. As I can't edit my previous comment, I'll add the link here https://savedotorg.org/index.php/about/

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