It kinda makes me wonder if this is a push towards further centralization on the web.
> "Member States shall ensure that the TLD registries and the entities providing domain name registration services for the TLD publish, without undue delay after the registration of a domain name, domain registration data which are not personal data."
Your address is personal data, so is email, phone number, more or less any contact information etc.
So what is not personal data? Mainly thinks like that the domain had been registered through godaddy, i.e. thinks a police agency needs to know, to know where to go with a curt order for actual private information.
Also interesting: It's for the TLD, I wonder if they have a clear definition of it, or else .co.uk and similar would no longer be covered (not that it matters anymore). But what definitely should not be covered are sub-domain registrars.
Through I haven't read the draft of the directive, so I can't tell you if there are some uncanny effects between article 23 and other articles.
So you wouldn't be subject to these rules as you're not entitled to hold one of those domains.
Because onion sites are slower, harder to access, not easily searchable, and not easily protected against DDoS attacks.
in the sense that every possible thing has been said about everything, sure. and to a slightly greater extent maybe they were said about trying to SSL-ify _everything_.
but "gee maybe shouldn't SSL-ify sites handling sensitive data" has never been a serious talking point.
> For those that say this is a hit to privacy: this operates the same way it would if you were buying property anywhere else. Yes, it's digital property, but you should have to be responsible for that permissive SPF record allowing relay of malware spam in the same way you have to be responsive when there's a gas leak on physical property.
In any case, self hosting a blog seems like a pretty weird step if what you're after is good anonymity.
I'm not after anonymity, I just don't want my address and phone number to be easily available to every nutcase out there.