legal vs natural persons
A natural person is a human being, and a legal person is a company or other organization. The GDPR General Data Protection Regulation The European Union data protection law that led to hiding personal data in WHOIS. Full definition of GDPR protects the personal data of people, not data about companies. ICANN Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers The nonprofit that coordinates the global DNS and gTLD policy. Full definition of ICANN policy lets gTLD generic top-level domain A top-level domain not tied to a country, run under ICANN contracts. Full definition of gTLD registrar A company that registers domain names for customers with the registry. Full definition of registrar treat the two differently when publishing registration data The information kept about a domain and its owner. Full definition of registration data, but does not oblige them to.
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