AT-LARGE GATEWAY
At-Large Regional Policy Engagement Program (ARPEP)
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| Comment Close Date | Statement Name | Status | Assignee(s) and | Call for Comments | Call for Comments Close | Vote Announcement | Vote Open | Vote Reminder | Vote Close | Date of Submission | Staff Contact and Email | Statement Number |
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| 09.03.2013 | Whois Registrant Identification Study, Draft Report | VotingAdopted 11Y, 0N, 1A | Salanieta Tamanikaiwaimaro (APRALO) | 07.03.2013 | 08.03.2013 20:00 UTC | 08.03.2012 | 08.03.2012 | 14.03.2013 | 15.03.2013 | 09.03.2013 | Barbara Roseman | TBC |
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FINAL VERSION TO BE SUBMITTED IF RATIFIED
The At-Large Advisory Committee (ALAC) would like to thank the GNSO and particularly NORC at the University of Chicago for its Draft Project Summary Report.
The WHOIS Registrant Identification Study was useful in identifying the types of registrants, in adding context to issues raised within previous WHOIS Reports and helped to inform the discussions on WHOIS Misuse, Abuse and Privacy related issues. The findings are very useful and will serve as an important factor in dealing with the development of Policies.
The breakdown of Apparent Domain Name users was interesting where:
- 37% were “legal person” users;
- 26% were tagged as “no usable online content”;
- 21% were “parked domains”;
- 12% were of an “unknown user type”; and
- 5% were “natural person” users.
As the second largest group, it is surprising to find the “non-usable online content” has such importance and we would like to see the breakdown of this figure from a geographical perspective.
On the methodology, we do not understand why NORC checked DNSBL listings, which are mostly used for fighting e-mail spam. This is even more of a paradox because the focus appeared to be on reviewing web sites and FTP servers. Today, the latter is seldom used. Domain names that may be used solely for e-mail do not appear to have been verified. Given the small sample, it would have been possible to send out an e-mail to the domain registrant, asking if they were an individual or a business. This might have reduced the large number of unknowns in the research.
We are concerned with the size of the “unknown country” data as per Table F.1 on pages 83-84 of the Draft Report. This appears to be very significant. Also, the study appeared to be using a data sample that was very US Centric. The ALAC would have preferred to see more sampling from the Asian and Eastern European regions since these are two areas with high Internet service growth.
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The ALAC is grateful both for the Briefing and the Report and may revert with requests for clarifications on various aspects of the Study once we have completed un-packaging the Draft Report.
FINAL DRAFT VERSION TO BE VOTED UPON BY THE ALAC
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