Page History
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- GNSO Council Recommendation on Further Studies of WHOIS (2008)
- WHOIS Misuse Study and Final Study Report (2014)
- WHOIS Registrant Identification Study and Final Study Report (2013)
- WHOIS Privacy and Proxy Services Abuse Study and Final Study Report (2014)
- WHOIS Privacy and Proxy Relay/Reveal Survey and Final Survey Results (2012)
- NORC WHOIS Accuracy Study (2010)
- NORC Study on the Prevalence of Domain Names Registered Using A Privacy or Proxy Service Among the Top 5 gTLDs (2010)
- US GAO Prevalence of False Contact Information for Registered Domain Names Study (2005)
- GNSO WHOIS Technical Requirements Survey (2013)
- Further links to GNSO WHOIS Study announcements and comments (2009-2014)
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- Accuracy Reporting System (ARS) Pilot Study Report (2014)
- ICANN Blog: Phase 1 of the ARS
- ARS Phase 1 Validation Criteria (2015)
- WHOIS Information Portal and Consolidated WHOIS Lookup Tool
- WHOIS Primer
- Final Report from the Working Group on Internationalized Registration Data (2015)
- Annual Report on WHOIS Improvements (2014)
- WHOIS Implementation Report (2015)
- ICANN Memorandum to the IRT on Thin to Thick WHOIS Transition - Final Memorandum and Scope (2014-2015)
- RDAP Operational Profile for Registries and Registrars (2016)
Related GNSO PDP Reports
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- Legacy WHOIS protocol (RFC 3912) (2004)
- Registration Data Access Protocol (RDAP - RFC 7480) (2015)
See also RDAP Operational Profile under WHOIS Improvements above - Extensible Provisioning Protocol (EPP - RFC 5730) (2009)
- Inventory and Analysis of WHOIS Registration Objects (RFC 7485) (2015)
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