WHOIS: It seems that the board of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) failed to get an exemption from the GDPR for the WHOIS tool. WHOIS is a huge database that lists who owns domain names.
Although ICANN reportedly filed a lawsuit (last week) demanding that domain registrars collect data, the GDPR is now in force in the European Union and until the case is heard, any companies that still collect WHOIS data are illegal. 
So in the context of the new General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), today we received an email from a domain registrar in Greece that explicitly states:
…no personal or contact information of the owner of a domain name will appear in WHOIS search results. This change makes the use of ID Protect unnecessary. Thus, the ID Protect service will be phased out.
In the coming period, the automatic renewal of the ID Protect service will be disabled. No action is required from you, ID Protect will be disabled upon expiration and your information will continue to be protected automatically.
It should be noted that WHOIS data collection practices were one of the gray areas of the law. The GDPR requires organizations to collect only as much data as is necessary for a specific business purpose, and no more. Thus, data indicating the administrative and technical manager of an email is now prohibited from being freely published on the internet.
Thus, services to hide this information from registrars no longer make sense. It should be recalled that anonymization services were charged additionally.
Due to the uncertainty about what is going to happen, some European DNS registrars have decided not to collect WHOIS information anymore.
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