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<p>Hi Susan,</p>
<p>how about this alternate version:</p>
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<h4 class="western">f) Grandfathered domain names</h4>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%">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>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"><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>
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%">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>
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> 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. </p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%">Their response is
below: </p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"><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. </i></p>
<i>
</i>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"><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."</i></p>
<i>
</i>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> </p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"><b>Based on this
analysis, the subgroup identified the following Problems/Issues:</b></p>
<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>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"><a name="_GoBack"></a>
<b>To address these issues, the subgroup proposes the following
recommendation (further detailed in the next section)</b>: <br>
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%">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. </p>
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