CIRA, (Canada Internet Registration Authority) will institute new privacy policies on June 10 to protect whois data for .ca domains.

Of course, that doesn’t protect existing .ca domain name holders, as their whois information could be anywhere! However, its been reported that changes made to whois data after June 10, won’t be publicly available.

Is the start of the end for the good old whois database? What will the police do to track down Internet criminals and phishing websites? Will other countries follow in Canadas footsteps? Is CIRA leaning too far towards the privacy advocates? Will the additional privacy attract criminals wanting to hide their identity?