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2.10 Study on the Prevalence of Domain Names Registered Using a Privacy or Proxy Registration Service: http://www.icann.org/en/announcements/announcement-14sep10-en.htm
3. Overview of Selected Whois Policy Activity (historical)
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The GNSO Council will discuss next steps at its upcoming meeting in Cartagena.
ICANN Staff provided input to the WG:
- October 2009 Letter from ICANN COO to WG and related October 2009 Staff Notes on New RAA Obligations to Address Internet Community Concerns about the DNS
4.3 Joint SSAC-GNSO Working Group on Whois Internationalized Registration Data:
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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/\* (http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/people/edelman/invalid-whois/*)
- Conducts a case study of 2754 registrations of a single firm all of which included intentionally invalid Whois contact information. Edelman draws several possible conclusions. He notes that of registrants providing intentionally-invalid Whois contact information, at least some register and hold a large number of domains.
2002 (November) – U.S. Federal Trade Commission Study on email address harvesting – FTC investigators "seeded" 175 Internet locations with 225 new "undercover" email addresses and tracked the resulting spam for a six-month period. The following chart summarizes harvesting by forum, http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/conline/edcams/spam/pubs/harvestchart.pdf. The study found no instance of email harvesting from a domain name registration.unmigrated-wiki-markup
*\[OTHER -- TBD -- as Review Team identifies needs\]*– TBD – as Review Team identifies needs]
Annex B -- Status of GNSO Council-requested WHOIS studies – November 2010 Update
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The ICANN Board approved the revisions to the RAA in 21 May 2009. The revised (or "new form") RAA applies to all new registrars, registrars that renew after 21 May 2009, and all registrars that voluntarily adopt the new contract prior to their renewal date.
RAA STATISTICS
Report date: 23 November 2010
Using Registry Data from: September 2010
Total Accredited Registrars: 966
Total Domains: 125,151,250
2001 RAA Data
Registrars on 2001 RAA: 221 (22.88%)
Registrars Under 2001 – New RAA Pending: 4
Domains Under 2001 – New RAA Pending: 145,808 (0.12%)
2001 RAA Extension: 1
(93) GKG.NET, INC.
2009 RAA Data
Domains Covered by 2009 RAA: 119,232,721 (95.27%)
Registrars on 2009 RAA: 745 (77.12%)
Early Adoption: 355 (47.65%)
Renewal: 307 (41.21%)
New: 79 (10.60%)
Assignment: 4 (0.54%)
