AT-LARGE GATEWAY
At-Large Regional Policy Engagement Program (ARPEP)
At-Large Review Implementation Plan Development
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| 09.03.2013 | At-Large Whois Registrant Identification Study, Draft Report Workspace | Drafting | Carlton Samuels (LACRALO) | TBC | TBC | TBC | TBC | TBC | TBC | Commenting | Salanieta Tamanikaiwaimaro (APRALO) | 07.03.2013 | 08.03.2013 20:00 UTC | 08.03.2012 | 08.03.2012 | 14.03.2013 | 15.03.2013 | 09.03.2013TBC | Barbara Roseman | TBC |
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The final draft version to be voted upon by the ALAC will be placed here before the vote is to begin.
FIRST DRAFT SUBMITTED
The first draft submitted will be placed here before the call for comments beginsAt Large Advisory Committee (ALAC) would like to thank the GNSO and particularly NORC at the University of Chicago for the Draft Project Summary Report.
The Whois Registrant Identification Study was useful in identifying the types of registrants and in adding context to issues raised within previous Whois Reports and helps to inform the discussions on Whois Misuse, Abuse and privacy related issues. The findings are very useful and will serve as in important factor in dealing with the development of Policies. We are still in the process of unpackaging this study which took two years to complete.
The breakdown of Apparent Domain Name users was interesting where legal person users were at 37%, no usable online content at 26%, parked domain was at 21%, unknown user type was at 12% and natural person user at 5%. The non-usable online content is alarming and we would like to see the breakdown of this from a geographical perspective.
It was interesting to discover the relative percentage of Privacy and Proxy use among legal persons and that of the 586 sampled domains, 55 % were legal person registrants, 25% were natural person registrants, 15% were privacy and proxy registrants and 5% were unknown.
The fact that the study reveals that of the 320 domain registrants coded as Privacy/Proxy service providers, only 10 were determined to be privacy service providers. In other words, about 3 % of domain registrants using a privacy or proxy noting that this is significantly different from ICANN’s Study on the Prevalence of Domain Names Registered using a Privacy or Proxy Service found a much larger percentage; approximately 15 percent of domain registrants.
We are concerned with the unknown data as per Table F.1 on pages 83-84 of the Draft Report. It was also interesting to see the breakdown of these unknown types by countries. We would have liked to see more categories in the area of illegal activities as well as see more samples from around Asia and Eastern Europe.
We are also grateful for the Briefing and the Report and will revert with requests for clarifications on various aspects of the Study once we have completed our unpackaging the Draft Report.
