Amadeu Abril

Amadeu Abril is a consultant with CORE Internet Council of Registrars, an ICANN-accredited reigstrar and registry operator for two Sponsored TLD: .museum and .cat

Besides that, I am a law professor, and hold other minor positions completely unrelated to WhoIs or DNS affairs in general.

2. Type of work performed in 1 above

I advise CORE in different areas, but mainly in the preparation of applications for new TLDs.

3. Financial ownership or management leadership of registries, registrars or other firms that are interested parties in Whois

No financial interest or onwnership position at any time, past of present.

I've been previously advising other ICANN-accredited registrars (Nominalia). I was also Director of the Board with a gTLD Registry (PIR; .org) and CEO of a sponsored TLD (Fundació puntCAT; .cat). I also was of Counsel in a Law Firm's IP & IT department which makes regular use of WhoIs.

I have registered some domain names in different TLDs (just four of them at present time).

4. Nature of your interest in Whois

Even if I am not part of their staff anymore, I am currently advising Fundació puntCAT in a proposal for amending their WhoIs service, in order to better reconcile the service with European Data Protection laws. Other than that, I have a general interest in the reform of Whois deriving from my experiences in the positions expressed above, as well as my involvement within the ICANN Board and the GNSO Council.

Member of the OPOC Working Group