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Susan, <br><br>
Per your request, attached is a redline of Volker's proposed edits to
Item f) Grandfathered domain names, including the RT-agreed
recommendation that is included in that section. Should the
recommendation language be edited, corresponding edits would also be
needed to the Recommendations section.<br><br>
Best, Lisa<br><br>
At 08:14 AM 8/14/2018, Volker Greimann wrote:<br><br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite="">Hi Susan,<br><br>
how about this alternate version:<br><br>
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<h4><b>f) Grandfathered domain names</b></h4><br><br>
In 2013, there were 18 existing legacy TLDs and 146 new gTLDs added for a
total of 164 gTLDs. About 30% of the domain names sampled by the WHOIS
ARS program in its 6th Cycle were determined to be so-called
'grandfathered domains' to which only the WHOIS requirements under the
2009 RAA, but not those of the 2013 RAA apply as they were registered
with registrars under the 2009 RAA. Under the 2009 RAA the
collection and display of Registrant email address, postal address or
phone number and the validation or verification of certain data elements
were not required. Grandfathered domain names cease to be considered as
such upon transfer to a registrar under the 2013 RAA and/or upon making
an update to the registrant information. As such, the WHOIS ARS study has
recorded a steady decrease of such grandfathered domain names from cycle
to cycle from 63.7% in June 2015 to 30.3% in January 2018.<br><br>
<b>Analysis:</b> If we assume the current sample of domain names in the
ARS study of 30% domain names falling under the definition of
grandfathered domains then we can extrapolate this to 30% of all domain
names registered MAY may not have complete registrant data collected,
displayed, verified or validated. According to GDD this could include up
to 180,000,000 domain name registrations. <br><br>
While the number of grandfathered domains continues to shrink with
deletions, transfer and updates this still constitutes a significant
number of domain name registrations. While registrars are not required to
apply the 2013 RAA requirements to grandfathered domain names, they may
chose to do so for convenience sake. This may result in domain name
registrations that would be considered grandfathered registrations by the
ARS and the GDD but are in fact already fully compliant with the 2013 RAA
requirements. <br><br>
GDD has provided additional clarification to our question about how many
domain names actually do not include the 2013 RAA required information in
the registrant field. <br><br>
Their response is below: <br><br>
<i>"It’s important to note that if a Grandfathered record provides
an email or telephone number, WHOIS ARS will assesses those fields for
accuracy. While the WHOIS ARS doesn’t include % of missing Registrant
Email and Telephone numbers for grandfathered registrations vs.
non-grandfathered registrations; the overall missing counts of Registrant
email and telephone numbers based on our subsample seem fairly low. <br>
</i><br>
<i>In the latest ARS report the number of missing registrant email
addresses and phone numbers are very low. This does not completely
address the concern of the review team that all domain name registrations
must adhere to the same data collection requirements."<br>
</i><br>
<b>Based on this analysis, the subgroup identified the following
Problems/Issues:<br>
</b><br>
Current WHOIS policies do not apply equally to all gTLD domain name
registrations. A transition mechanism has been incorporated into the RAA
through the requirements becoming applicable on transfers and updates,
however it may be desirable to set an end date for the transition process
to ensure equivalent data quality over all registrations. While current
trends seem to suggest a steady continuation of the phasing-out
process, it is conceivable that the number of grandfathered domain
names will continue to stay in the 30% rate for many years to come or at
least significantly slow down unless the 2013 RAA requirements and
policies be made binding on all the domain name registrations
irrespective of when they were registered. <br>
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<b>To address these issues, the subgroup proposes the following
recommendation (further detailed in the next section)</b>: <br><br>
The ICANN Board should direct ICANN Organization to review grandfathered
domain names to determine the percentage of such domains where
information is missing from the RDS Registrant field. If more than 15% of
all gTLD domain name registrations are found to lack data in the
Registrant field that is required under the 2013 RAA but not required
under the 2009 RAA, then the ICANN Board should initiate action intended
to ensure that all gTLD domain names adhere to the same registration data
collection requirements [within 12 months] provided that such action does
not unduly impact the rights of registrants in the use of their domain
name and does not create an undue burden upon registrars who would have
to enforce any such requirement. <br><br>
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