[lac-discuss-en] New Report Presents Syntax and Operability Accuracy of WHOIS Data in gTLDs
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- Subject: [lac-discuss-en] New Report Presents Syntax and Operability Accuracy of WHOIS Data in gTLDs
- From: Carlton Samuels <carlton.samuels@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2017 21:25:15 -0500 News Alert https://www.icann.org/news/announcement-2017-12-19-en New Report Presents Syntax and Operability Accuracy of WHOIS Data in gTLDs 19 December 2017 Key Findings Nearly all WHOIS records contain information that can be used to establish immediate contact: In 98 percent of records, at least one email or phone number meets all operability requirements of the 2009 RAA. Approximately 94 percent of email addresses, 67 percent of telephone numbers, and 98 percent of postal addresses were operable (see Table 1 below for more information). Email Telephone Postal Address All Three Accurate All Three Contacts (Registrant, Technical, Administrative) Accurate 93.8% ± 0.4% 66.9% ± 0.8% 98.4% ± 0.3% 63.4% ± 0.9% In terms of syntax accuracy, approximately 99 percent of email addresses, 90 percent of telephone numbers, and 89 percent of postal addresses were found to meet all the requirements of the 2009 RAA (see Table 2 below for more information). Email Telephone Postal Address All Three Accurate All Three Contacts (Registrant, Technical, Administrative) Accurate 99.6% ± 0.1% 90.2% ± 0.5% 88.9% ± 0.6% 81.5% ± 0.8%
Next Steps
Results included in the report have been provided to ICANN's Contractual
Compliance team, which will assess the types of errors found and follow up with
registrars on potentially inaccurate records. If WHOIS inaccuracy and/or format
complaints are created from the WHOIS ARS data, ICANN Contractual Compliance
will issue tickets in accordance with the Contractual Compliance Approach and
Process [PDF, 292 KB]. Compliance provides updates on a quarterly basis, which
include updates on WHOIS ARS tickets and can be found here. In response to
ICANN community requests, the ICANN org now publishes additional metrics on the
WHOIS ARS Contractual Compliance Metrics page here.
The ICANN org will begin work on the next WHOIS ARS report in January 2018,
with a targeted publication date of June 2018.
Learn more: General information on WHOIS Previous WHOIS ARS Reports Pilot
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