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7. Additional Information
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Annex A
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-- Links to Other Reports and References
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Annex B
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-- Status of GNSO Council-requested WHOIS studies – November 2010 Update
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- 2005 – (June) – GNSO Council combined remaining work of three TFs into a single Task Force to:#
- Define the purpose of WHOIS in the context of ICANN's mission and core values, international and national privacy laws, and other specified factors; and
- Define the purpose of the Registered Name Holder, technical, and administrative contacts, in the context of the purpose of WHOIS, and the purpose for which the data was collected.
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- 2006 – (15 March) -- Preliminary Task Force Report on the Purpose of Whois and of Whois Contacts -- Looked at the purpose of WHOIS contacts (registered name holder, administrative and technical contacts); what data should be publicly accessible and how to access data that is not publicly accessible; and how to improve the process for investigating and correcting inaccurate data.
- 2007 – (12 March) -- Final Task Force Report on Whois Services -- In the course of deliberation, several Registrars offered an "Operational Point of Contact (OPOC)" proposal, in which every registrant would identify an operational contact who would be identified in WHOIS in lieu of the registrant's information currently displayed. In case of an issue with the domain name, the OPOC would contact the registrant to resolve, or to reliably pass on data to resolve, operational issues relating to a domain name. When the GNSO Council met on 28 March 2007, it created a WHOIS Working Group to further examine the OPOC proposal. The Council considered the results of that report on 31 October 2007, and opted to pursue further studies of Whois rather than recommend to the Board that the OPOC proposal be adopted.
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- Determine the prevalence of false or incomplete contact data in Whois for.com, .org, and .net domains;
- Determine the extent to which false data are corrected within 1month of being reported to ICANN; and
- Describe steps the Department of Commerce and ICANN have taken to ensure the accuracy of contact data in the Whois database. *
- Based on a survey of 900 domain names (300 each in .com, .net and .org), GAO concluded that 2.31 million domain names (5.14%) were registered with patently false data (data that appeared obviously and intentionally false) in one of more of the required contact information fields.
- GAO also found that 1.64 million (3.65%) were registered with incomplete data in one or more of the required fields. In total, GAO estimates that 3.89 million domain names (8.65%) had at least one instance of false or incomplete data in required Whois fields.
2002 -- Ben Edelman's analysis: Large-Scale Intentional Invalid WHOIS Data: A Case Study of "NicGod Productions" / "Domains For Sale" *http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/people/edelman/invalid-whois/*
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Annex B -- Status of GNSO Council-requested WHOIS studies – November 2010 Update
Study Area/Topic | Specific studies defined (work in progress) | Current status | Other Information |
1. WHOIS Misuse Studies | 1. Experimental: register test domains and measure harmful messages resulting from misuse | Council decided 8 Sept 2010 to proceed with this study. | § Can count and categorize harmful acts attributed to misuse and show data was probably not obtained from other sources |
2. WHOIS Registrant Identification Study | 1. Gather info about how business/commercial domain registrants are identified | 5 RFP responses received. Staff analysis to Council on 23 March 2010. | § Can classify ownership and purpose of what appear to be commercial domains without clear registrant information, and measure how many were registered using a P/P service |
3. WHOIS Privacy and Proxy "Abuse" Study | Compare broad sample of P/P-registered domains associated with alleged harmful acts with overall frequency of P/P registrations | 3 RFP responses received. Staff analysis to Council on 5 October 2010. | § Can sample many harmful acts to assess how often alleged "bad actors" try to obscure identity in WHOIS |
4. WHOIS Privacy and Proxy "Relay & Reveal" Study | Analyze relay and reveal requests sent for P/P-registered domains to explore and document how they are processed | RFP posted on 29 September, responses due 30 November 2010. | RFP and Terms of Reference: |
5. non-ASCII registration information | Technical analysis of how non-ASCII registration information is displayed. | On hold pending work of Internationalized Registration Data WG. | IRD WG Workshop was conducted in Brussels. Interim report to be presented in Cartagena. See: Internationalized Registration Data Working Group Interim Report |
6. WHOIS service requirements | Compile a list of WHOIS service requirements based on current + previous policy discussions | Final report complete. | http://gnso.icann.org/issues/whois/whois-service-requirements-final-report-29jul10-en.pdf |
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