“ICANN’s na?ve and unprofessional approach to” the EU’s GDPR was one of 2018’s lowlights says Richard Wein, CEO of Austria’s ccTLD registry nic.at in today’s Domain Pulse Q&A with leading industry figures, looking at the year in review and year ahead. GDPR planning dominated many European ccTLDs in the first half of 2018 to the detriment of other work, but while Wein has come concerns about the GDPR, he wonders if it is a “sledgehammer to crack a nut”. Overall he thinks it’s a positive and now he’s happy about how the team at nic.at responded to the European Union’s consumer data protection regulation.