A couple of days ago I wrote a piece about Efty and GDPR. I might have used the wrong wording in the title of the post here, it might have misled some to think Efty was GDPR compliant.
The title of Efty’s post was Here’s why Efty users are best prepared for GDPR
Frank Michlick asked a question about the post at hand:
How does Efty verify domain ownership without public whois when people list their domains?
With the integrations to escrow.com etc., how does Efty inform a European domain buyer of those relationsships and which data is being passed on (in accordance with GDPR regulations)?
The same question goes for buyer’s data passed on to the domain owner. On the landers I checked, I don’t see any privacy & data information on the form the buyer fills out.
Efty did answer this question on their blog:
Great questions Frank. This post is really about Efty making it easy for buyers to reach domain name owners after that are using our For-Sale landing pages after Whois contact information will be unavailable.
Efty isn’t a marketplace such as Sedo where people can “list” their domains hence there’s only a need for us to verify ownership when someone ads a domain name that is already in another Efty user’s account.
Efty doesn’t act as a middleman for escrow transactions so I can’t comment on that question but I have asked our contacts at these companies for a comment about what they are doing in preparation for GDRP and will update my comment once I hear back.
I am happy to share we are working on providing our sellers with the necessary tools to be GDPR compliant in a new version of the platform we will roll out soon. Keep an eye on our blog for updates.
GDPR is serious business and I wanted to make sure that I clarified the previous post and the error in the title.
Classy move, thx. I did take your previous post to mean Efty was compliant with the ridiculous GDPR. I think a better way to do things here is to not do business with Europeans.