Friday, December 21, 2007

ICANN Commences Whois Data Accuracy Study

Via ICANN.

Over the years ICANN constituencies and others have observed apparent inaccuracies in Whois contact information provided by registrants when registering and maintaining their domain names. In an attempt to contribute to community discussion regarding Whois policy, ICANN has undertaken a study of domain name Whois contact information accuracy.

After finalizing the methodology to determine the Whois data accuracy of each data set, staff will execute the steps for each registered domain name within the representative sample. Staff anticipates several steps will be necessary to determine Whois data accuracy. Therefore, staff will conduct this study in phases. ICANN will publish status reports as staff completes work in connection with each phase of the study. The first report regarding this study will be published by February 2008.

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