1&1 IONOS Inc. sucks for being "GDPR compliant".

from: hosting@ionos.com
to: presenter.case@1und1und1.org
date: Jan 5, 2019, 11:07 AM
subject: C123456789 Re: CP-Feedback us COMPLAINT
mailed-by: ionos.com
signed-by: ionos.com
Dear Kenneth Matinale,

Thank you for contacting us.

It is very important for us to answer all your questions quickly and to your satisfaction.

We are a European Company we are GDPR compliant...

from: Ken
to: hosting@ionos.com
date: Jan 5, 2019, 11:18 AM
subject: Re: C123456789 Re: CP-Feedback us COMPLAINT

"GDPR compliant" does NOT mean that you can force me to hide my domain registration and admin information from Whois searches. You have no common sense. That's why I'm eliminating my personal domain and going through the huge inconvenience of informing EVERYONE that my lifetime email ID is going away and to please use my new email, which is not based on my personal domain. All thanks to the European company IONOS that took over 1and1, which had been doing a good job of hosting my personal domain for several years and forwarding my email to a generic outside free email company, which I will now use in the open.

I'll post this most recent example of a ridiculous exchange between me and an IONOS "GDPR compliant" person.
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GDPR prohibits publication of website registration and administration data. TUESDAY, JANUARY 1, 2019
General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) now intimidates web hosting companies concerning Whois searches.

from: hosting@ionos.com
to: me
date: Jan 1, 2019, 5:36 PM
... our company is a GDPR compliant. Therefore, all customers who have domains and accounts with us must comply with the said policy as well. If you wish to publish your personal information as the owner of the domain for the public to see, you can out your information on your website instead.

Technical Support

1&1 IONOS Inc.
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GDPR compliant is a euphemism for mindlessly rolling over to a European bureaucracy ...

1&1 IONOS never notified its customers about this and the matter is little known or understood inside 1&1 IONOS. All they do is act like robots and repeat that 1&1 IONOS is GDPR compliant.

GDPR: Europe regulates the world's technologies it lacks the imagination to create. SATURDAY, MAY 26, 2018

1and1.com
Gunter Eberling, VP 1&1 IONOS