<font face="Tahoma" color="#000000">Let us not forget .jobs in the list of thin registries.</font><div><font face="Tahoma" color="#000000"><br></font></div><div><font face="Tahoma" color="#000000">Don<br></font><font face="Tahoma" color="#000000"><div><br></div><div class="mb_sig">----------<div><br></div><div><p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 10pt;">Don M. Blumenthal</p><p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 10pt;">DMB
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<p style="color: #AAAAAA; margin-top: 10px;">On 1/18/2016 4:27:59 AM, Michele Neylon - Blacknight <michele@blacknight.com> wrote:</p>
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<div>Will this also impact thin registries ie. .com and .net, as this would have an impact on registrars? </div>
<div>The wording of the email wasn’t very clear on this point.</div>
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<span style="font-weight:bold">From: </span><<a href="mailto:gtld-tech-bounces@icann.org">gtld-tech-bounces@icann.org</a>> on behalf of Russ Weinstein <<a href="mailto:russ.weinstein@icann.org">russ.weinstein@icann.org</a>><br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">Date: </span>Friday 15 January 2016 at 19:01<br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">To: </span>"<a href="mailto:gtld-tech@icann.org">gtld-tech@icann.org</a>" <<a href="mailto:gtld-tech@icann.org">gtld-tech@icann.org</a>><br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">Subject: </span>[gtld-tech] WHOIS Data Collection Phase 2 Cycle 2 of WHOIS Accuracy Reporting System (ARS)<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Between 20 January and 17 February 2016, ICANN will be initiating a large volume of WHOIS queries of gTLD registrations as part of its WHOIS Accuracy Reporting System (ARS) project utilizing the following IP addresses
to perform the WHOIS queries:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="color:black">IP Addresses: 192.0.32.230/31 and 192.0.47.230/31<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">A gTLD can expect to receive query rates of 10 queries per minute; we have accounted for RSP’s with multiple gTLD’s and will attempt to limit the queries to 10 per minute across a RSP.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">We kindly request and appreciate your cooperation in allowing these queries to be processed and ask that you please whitelist the IP addresses provided above.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">As a reminder, the WHOIS ARS project was established to perform periodic studies to assess the accuracy of the contact information in the WHOIS data, with a goal of identifying opportunities to improve the accuracy
of this data over time. The project was established to implement a series of improvements recommended by the WHOIS Review Team and approved by the Board (8 November 2012) on the manner in which ICANN carries out its responsibilities regarding WHOIS.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">This collection of data will support the next cycle in the WHOIS ARS, Phase 2 Cycle 2, which aims to assess syntax and operability accuracy of the contact information in a gTLD WHOIS record. Accuracy will be determined
with respect to the requirements of the WHOIS record’s applicable version of the Registrar Accreditation Agreement. ICANN will pull a sample of approximately 200,000 WHOIS records across the entire gTLD name space, and will then perform accuracy testing on
a subsample of those records. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">We published a report (<a href="https://whois.icann.org/en/file/whois-ars-phase-2-cycle-1-report-syntax-and-operability-accuracy">https://whois.icann.org/en/file/whois-ars-phase-2-cycle-1-report-syntax-and-operability-accuracy</a>)
for Phase 2 Cycle 1 on 23 December 2015 and plan to publish a report of the findings of Phase 2 Cycle 2 in June 2016. More information about the project can be found on whois.icann.org:
<a href="https://whois.icann.org/en/whoisars">https://whois.icann.org/en/whoisars</a>. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Thank you for your cooperation,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">ICANN’s GDD Operations Team<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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