RE: Is WHOIS going to go away?

Does anyone believe privacy etc will be enhanced by forbidding your finding out who owns this domain you were directed towards by a search engine?

Granted you may not get a satisfactory answer but then maybe you choose not to do business with them, ok, your choice.

But what if the response is "SORRY BLOCKED BY GDPR"?

Do you do business with them? Or not?

Not. --- The fact that there's a Highway to Hell but only a Stairway to Heaven says a lot about anticipated traffic volume.