[gnso-rds-pdp-wg] For WG Review - Redlined Problem Statement

Rob Golding rob.golding at astutium.com
Thu Aug 25 00:10:26 UTC 2016


On 2016-08-24 22:28, Elaine Pruis wrote:
> I love statistics.

Me too :)

> Registries must self report whois look up data.
> https://www.icann.org/resources/pages/registry-reports
> For example, in .com April 2016 ALONE
> “Whois” Queries IN MILLIONS 15,000.3
> Web-based Whois  6,960,159

.com is a "thin whois" there is no end-user identifiable data in the 
registry results, simply the expiry date, status, registrar and 
nameservers.

So a fantastic example of whois being used and/or useful and yet not 
needing the bulk of the proposed RDS datasets :)

Rob



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