GoDaddy Sounds Alarm Over How India Law Would Upend Internet Privacy Everywhere

The internet is filled with fakes. A court in India is setting out to address the problem by requiring more transparency from domain registrars to make it easier to crack down on fraud. And while the intentions might be good, Reuters is reporting that major American domain registrar GoDaddy is sounding the warning bells that the court’s decision could fundamentally reshape the internet well beyond India’s borders. Fraudulent domains have been an ongoing issue for India, which has increasingly seen its population become connected in recent years. According to Our World In Data, India went from 15% of its more than 1.46 billion residents having internet access in 2015 to 70% in 2025. That’s a huge leap in a short period of time, meaning there are a lot of people with limited knowledge of online literacy and best practices for cybersecurity. That makes those users a target of online fraud. The nation’s National Technical Research Organization (NTRO) reported identifying more than 1,100 phishing domains in the first quarter of 2025 alone, and new ones are cropping up all the time. A lot of those fraudulent sites use big brands to try to trick visitors into engaging. That has led to a l