Re: GoDaddy deleting most ancillary registration contact information

[Tom Beecher via NANOG <nanog () lists nanog org>]

> I doubt the citizenship matters. It's your address, i.e. your residency.
> But
> yeah, opting for less information to stay on the safe side is a likely
> outcome of GDPR.


It's referred to as the 'Brussels Effect'  , or 'California Effect'.

When certain types of regulation apply in a very large market, most
companies just apply those rules to their entire business operation,
because that's easier then trying to be surgical about it and making a
mistake. By extension, consumers in other places reap much of the same
benefits as a result.

On Fri, Jul 18, 2025 at 7:14 PM Marc Binderberger via NANOG <
nanog () lists nanog org> wrote:

> On Fri, 18 Jul 2025 19:39:47 +0000, David Conrad via NANOG wrote:
>
> > IANAL, but my understanding is that one of the “nice” things about GDPR
> > is that it applies to European citizens, regardless of where they’re
> > located.
>
> Not a lawyer either but a European citizen. Gee, I did not know that I
> carried my shiny GDPR armor when I lived in the US - so many missed
> opportunities to sue companies! ;-)
>
> Seriously, the "regardless of where they're located" is true for the
> companies when you do business with someone _in_ the EU. Btw, it's not
> just
> EU citizen but also residents of the EU (!).
> I found this explanation:
>
>     https://gdpr.eu/companies-outside-of-europe/
>
> > Since registrars generally don’t know the citizenship of the information
> > associated with individual registrants or their contacts, the term
> “better
> > safe than sorry” probably applies.
>
> I doubt the citizenship matters. It's your address, i.e. your residency.
> But
> yeah, opting for less information to stay on the safe side is a likely
> outcome of GDPR.
>
> For GoDaddy.com, when I typed it in my browser I got the
> https://www.godaddy.com/es-es page as I'm in Spain. With prices in Euro.
> Which fits the example the gdpr.eu page above mentions.
>
>
> Still, another detail that favors the big companies and creates risks for
> the
> small ones. Should have studied law, I guess.
>
> Regards, Marc
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