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<p class="MsoNormal">Dear review team members,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">In response to your two questions below submitted on 12 December 2018, It seems that SME’S have previously addressed these questions in the
<a href="https://mm.icann.org/pipermail/rds-whois2-rt/2017-November/000207.html">
WHOIS1 Implementation Briefings circulated in November 2017</a>. You can find the responses under questions 6, 7 and 8 in the following
<a href="https://community.icann.org/download/attachments/63145823/WHOIS1-Implementation%20Briefings_final.docx?version=1&modificationDate=1510566466000&api=v2">
document</a>. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Please kindly let us know if there is any other specific question that the Review Team would like SME’s to address.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="color:black">Kind regards,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Jean-Baptiste</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">From: </span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">RDS-WHOIS2-RT <rds-whois2-rt-bounces@icann.org> on behalf of Susan Kawaguchi <susankpolicy@gmail.com><br>
<b>Date: </b>Wednesday, December 12, 2018 at 1:20 PM<br>
<b>To: </b>RDS WHOIS2-RT List <rds-whois2-rt@icann.org><br>
<b>Subject: </b>[RDS-WHOIS2-RT] Common Interface rec.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">We have additional questions for ICANN org. Please see highlighted below</span><span style="font-family:"-webkit-standard",serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span><span style="font-family:"-webkit-standard",serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">We have found several error messages in using the tool referenced below:</span><span style="font-family:"-webkit-standard",serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify"><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333">The requested second-level domain was not found in the Registry or Registrar’s WHOIS Server. (the domain name was confirmed
to be registered with the registry)</span></i><span style="font-family:"-webkit-standard",serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify"><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333">Sorry, but the Registry or Registrar WHOIS Server responded with a rate limit message due to high query volumes or
has closed the connection without a response. Please try your request again later.</span></i><span style="font-family:"-webkit-standard",serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify"><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333">ICANN received a timeout while querying the Registry or Registrar’s WHOIS Server</span></i><span style="font-family:"-webkit-standard",serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333;background:yellow">Are these error messages created by ICANN or do they come directly from the Registrar or Registry?
</span><span style="font-family:"-webkit-standard",serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333;background:yellow">Does ICANN track how often these error messages are presented in response to a WHOIS query?
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