[Rt4-whois] Fwd: Centralized Whois Query system run by ICANN

[Emily Taylor]

Hi

Susan, Kathy - I've been following your exchanges on Thick/Thin with
interest.

Susan mentioned Lutz's proposal on a central repository/portal run by
ICANN.  Here is his text for ease of reference. How about the two of you
consider this outline and see whether this could meet your
concerns/requirements (or if not, how could it be adapted to do so?)

Kind regards

Emily

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Lutz Donnerhacke <lutz at iks-jena.de>
Date: 9 November 2011 11:22
Subject: [Rt4-whois] Centralized Whois Query system run by ICANN
To: rt4-whois at icann.org


Proposal:

Summary:
 ICANN should set up and maintain a web interface to access
 all the WHOIS services in order to ease access to the WHOIS data.

Presumption:
 The AoC requires that "ICANN implement measures to maintain timely,
 unrestricted and public access to accurate and complete WHOIS information,
 including registrant, technical, billing, and administrative contact
 information."

Observation:
 An User Insight Report came up with the following results:
  + Almost nobody is aware of whois
  + Almost nobody is able to query a whois server correctly
  + Whois queries were done on websites which occur first in the search
    engine results. Usually those pages are overloaded with advertisments.

Detailed recommendation:
 ICANN should set up a dedicated, multilingual website to allow
 "unrestricted and public access to accurate and complete WHOIS
 information" even for those people which have problems with the plain
 WHOIS protocol.

 The WHOIS information should be collected by following the thin WHOIS
 approach starting at whois.iana.org. The service should display the
 contractural relationships which are revealed by the WHOIS referals in
 a clear and understandable way. The results should be mark clearly the
 relevant information "including registrant, technical, billing, and
 administrative contact" data.

 The server needs to be run by ICANN itself, because the "timely,
 unrestricted and public access" is usually rate limited, stripped or even
 blocked by the various WHOIS server administrators for uncontractual
 third party access. ICANN itself is the only party having the power to
 overcome those limits using its contratual compliance.
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