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| | EPIC WHOIS Page |
 | | Civil society groups from over 20 countries have sent this letter urging ICANN to limit the use and scope of the WHOIS database to its original purpose, which is the resolution of technical network issues, and to establish strong privacy protections based on internationally accepted privacy standards. |
 | | WHOIS data consists of domain name registrants' contact information (including registrant's mailing address, email address, telephone number, and fax number); administrative contact information (including mailing address, email address, telephone number, and fax number); technical contact information (including mailing address, email address, telephone number, and fax number); domain name; domain servers; and other information. |
 | | Contribution (pdf) of the European Commission to the general discusison of the WHOIS database raised by the Reports produced by the ICANN WHOIS Task Force, January 22, 2003. |
| www.epic.org /privacy/whois (3380 words) |
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