Page History
...
On 1 February 2017, both CL&D and Transition Policies were published and the GDD team is working with the IRT to implement the policy till effective dates.
- Registry Registration Data Directory Services Consistent Labeling and Display Policy ( - effective on 1 August 2017, adopted by ICANN Board 7 February 2014; implementation documents posted 1 February 2017)
- Thick RDDS (Whois) Transition Policy for .COM, .NET and .JOBS ( - effective on 1 May 2018 and 1 February 2019, adopted by ICANN Board 7 February 2014; implementation documents posted 1 February 2017)
On1 May 2017, Registry Operator deployed an EPP mechanism and an alternative bulk transfer mechanism in relevant Operating Test Environments (OT&E) for Registrars to test the migration of registration data for Existing Domain Names (i.e., transition from Thin to Thick)
On 30 June 2017, following blog was published: " the ICANN organization approved Verisign's request for a 120-day extension of the 1 August 2017 date in the Thick WHOIS Transition Policy by which Verisign is required to deploy an Extensible Provisioning Protocol (EPP) mechanism and an alternative bulk transfer mechanism for .COM and .NET for registrars to migrate registration data for existing domain names. With this extension, the new date for Verisign's compliance with the requirement is 29 November 2017."
...
For the Transition Policy please see the news update on the icann.org
Introduction
As resolved by the GNSO Council at its meeting on 31 October ‘the GNSO Council shall convene a Thick Whois Implementation Review Team to assist ICANN Staff in developing the implementation details for the new policy should it be approved by the ICANN Board. The Implementation Review Team will be tasked with evaluating the proposed implementation of the policy recommendations as approved by the Board and is expected to work with ICANN Staff to ensure that the resultant implementation fulfills the intentions of the approved policy recommendations’. The ICANN Board approved the recommendations at its meeting on 7 February 2014 .
...
GNSO Council Liaison: Susan Kawaguchi (BC)
Volunteer Experts from affected parties (registrars) to workout implementation details of transition from thin to thick WHOIS (as of 3 Dec) :
...
