A committee of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) , the organization that manages the Internet domain name system, has decided to leave the WHOIS database as it is, at least for now.
The committee, which has been discussing changes to the WHOIS database for seven years, voted 17-7 Wednesday to continue studying the issue.
The committee, called the Generic Names Supporting Organization, also voted 17-7 against a proposal that would have allowed "natural persons," people who register domain names for purposes other than conducting business over the Internet, to list the contact information of designated third parties in the WHOIS database, rather than their own.
The WHOIS registry is the legacy database of the domain name system. It contains the names and contact information of those who register Internet domains. Currently, anyone is able to access the data contained in the database.
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