d. Use Cases

Overarching Purpose: Digital Crime investigation by non-LEA

Use case: Initial investigation of criminal activity against a victim and/or secondary victim where domain names are used in the commission of the crime (part 1 of 2)

Overarching Purpose: Investigate, detect, prevent, and bring civil claims for Abusive Domain names

Use case: Identify owner of abusive domains and other related domains involved in civil legal claims related to phishing, malware, botnets, and other fraudulent activities

Overarching Purpose: Obtain domain name holder details for legal claims

Use Case: The establishment, exercise or defense of a legal claim involving a registrant of a domain name

Overarching Purpose:  Site Integrity and Business Integrity Confirmation

Use Case: Search Engines, Messaging Services & Social Media Platforms seeking to confirm the authenticity of businesses advertising or Posting News on its Platform

Overarching Purpose: Enabling timely resolution of domain-based security events and attacks

Use Case: When a network is undergoing an attack involving a domain name, and the operator(s) of that network need to contact the domain owner to remediate the security issue (DDOS, Botnet, etc.)

Overarching Purpose: The processing of personal data to the extent strictly necessary and proportionate for the purposes of ensuring network and information security, i.e. the ability of a network or an information system to resist, at a given level of confidence, accidental events or unlawful or malicious actions that compromise the availability, authenticity, integrity and confidentiality of stored or transmitted personal data, and the security of the related services offered by, or accessible via, those networks and systems, by public authorities, by computer emergency response teams (CERTs), computer security incident response teams (CSIRTs), by providers of electronic communications networks and services and by providers of security technologies and services.

Use Case: Determine “Reputation” of domain name and/or elements associated with domain name registrations.

Overarching Purpose: Crime and abuse investigation by non-law enforcement parties

Use Case: Investigation of criminal activity where domain names are used.  Typical specific example: phishing attack. 

Overarching Purpose: Preventing Fraud - Consumer Protection

Use Case: Online buyers identifying and validating the source of goods or services/ Internet users validating the legitimacy of an email or a website to protect themselves

Overarching Purpose: Fraud Prevention – Consumer Protection

Use Case: Consumer protection organizations

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Use case: Trademark owners requesting data in the establishment, exercise or defense of legal claims for trademark infringement

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Use Case: Copyright owners requesting data in the establishment, exercise or defense of legal claims for copyright infringement

Overarching Purpose: Providers requesting access required to facilitate due process in the UDRP and URS

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Overarching Purpose: Business investigation for Domain Portfolio Purchases

Use case: : M&A name portfolio due diligence or purchase of domain name from bankrupt entity or other seller

Overarching Purpose:  Issuance of Digital Certificates linked with a Specific Domain

Use case: Help a certification authority determine and validate the identity of the entity associated with a domain name that will be bound to an SSL/TLS certificate

Overarching Purpose:  Resolution of Technical or Operational Issue with a Domain Name

Use Case: Contacting the Registrant to resolve a Technical or Operational Issue with a Domain Name

Overarching Purpose: Domain name maintenance

Use case: Maintaining the domain name registration by the Registered Name Holder