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The At Large Advisory Committee (ALAC) would like to thank the GNSO and particularly NORC at the University of Chicago for the its 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 Privacy related issues. The findings are very useful and will serve as in an 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.

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The fact that the study reveals, is 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 are using a privacy or proxy noting . The ALAC notes that this is significantly different from ICANN’s Study on the Prevalence of Domain Names Registered using a Privacy or Proxy Service which had 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 However, we would have liked to see more categories in the area of illegal activities as well as see more samples from around Asia the Asian and Eastern EuropeEuropean regions.

We are also grateful The ALAC is grateful both 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.