Daily Poll: How Much is GDPR Impacting Your Domain Business?

GDPR has been in force for about a week now. Several major domain registrars have removed Whois information for domain names registered there, but some of the largest domain registrars are still showing Whois information. As has been discussed extensively, GDPR may be problematic for domain name investors, especially those who use Whois information to buy or sell domain names.

With GDPR in force for a week now, I would ask how it is impacting your domain investment business so far:


Elliot Silver
Elliot Silver
About The Author: Elliot Silver is an Internet entrepreneur and publisher of DomainInvesting.com. Elliot is also the founder and President of Top Notch Domains, LLC, a company that has closed eight figures in deals. Please read the DomainInvesting.com Terms of Use page for additional information about the publisher, website comment policy, disclosures, and conflicts of interest. Reach out to Elliot: Twitter | Facebook | LinkedIn

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  1. This is a very important and interesting poll. Thanks, Elliot. I hope those that participate also post here as to why they voted in a certain way. Especially if you have been impacted in a negative way. So far we haven’t seen any impact yet.

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