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WHOIS services provide public access to data on registered domain names, which
currently includes contact information for Registered Name Holders. The extent
of registration data collected at the time of registration of a domain name,
and the ways such data can be accessed, are specified in agreements established
by ICANN for domain names registered in generic top-level domains (gTLDs).
For example, ICANN requires accredited registrars to collect and provide free
public access to the name of the registered domain name and its nameservers
and registrar, the date the domain was created and when its registration expires,
and the contact information for the Registered Name Holder, the technical contact,
and the administrative contact.
Current Activity (updated February 2008)
The Generic Names Supporting Organization (GNSO) Council recently concluded
that a comprehensive, objective and quantifiable understanding of key factual
issues regarding the gTLD WHOIS system will benefit future GNSO policy development
efforts, and plans to ask ICANN staff to conduct several studies for this purpose.
Comments were requested on the details of these studies. The Council is considering
this input and will decide what specific studies on WHOIS will be conducted.
Possible areas of study might include a study of certain aspects of gTLD registrants
and registrations, a study of certain uses and misuses of WHOIS data, a study
of the use of proxy registration services, including privacy services, or a
comparative study of gTLD and ccTLD WHOIS.
ICANN GNSO WHOIS Study Group Report to the GNSO Council Recommendation on further studies of WHOIS, 22 May 2008
Summary of Public Suggestions on Further Studies of WHOIS including the GAC recommendations of 16 April Updated 10 May 2008
Addendum to Report on Public Suggestions on Further Studies of WHOIS
Staff
has prepared the following Report on Public Suggestions on Further Studies
of WHOIS
ICANN’s GNSO Council invites recommendations from the public for future studies
on WHOIS
Council Report to the Board on WHOIS, 15 November, 2007
Summary of Public Comments received from 13 September through 30 October on Recent GNSO WHOIS Activities, 31 October 2007
Staff Overview of Recent GNSO Whois Activity, updated 11 October, 2007
Staff Implementation Notes on the WHOIS Working Group Report, 11 October,
2007
Staff
Overview of Recent GNSO WHOIS Activity, 13 September 2007
Final Task
Force Report On Whois Services, 16 March 2007
The Whois Task Force has submitted its Final Task Force Report on Whois Services
to the GNSO Council.
Summary
of GNSO Public Forum on Whois, São Paulo, Brazil, 4th December 2006 [PDF,
5,206K | Word,
5,890K]
Detailed summary of the GNSO Public Forum on Whois, São Paulo, 4th
December 2006, with meeting transcription and presentation slides. (Full transcript
is here - http://www.icann.org/meetings/saopaulo/captioning-gnso-publicforum-06dec06.htm)
Draft
Procedure for Potential Conflicts between Whois Requirements and Privacy
Laws
This draft procedure was posted for public comments from 3 December 2006 to
15 January 2007.
Preliminary Task
Force Report on Whois Services
ICANN Board
decision Board decision on 10 May 2006
The ICANN Board approved the GNSO Recommendation on a
Procedure for Potential Conflicts between WHOIS Requirements and Privacy
Laws
From GNSO Council meeting
on 12 April 2006 –
"The GNSO Council recommends that the WHOIS task force use the following definition:
"The purpose of the gTLD Whois service is to provide information sufficient
to contact a responsible party for a particular gTLD domain name who can
resolve, or reliably pass on data to a party who can resolve, issues related
to the configuration of the records associated with the domain name within
a DNS nameserver."
as a working definition to allow the task force to proceed on terms of reference
(2), (3), and (4) (see: http://gnso.icann.org/policies/terms-of-reference.html)"
ICANN Mission and WHOIS
Formulation 1 (PDF) (27 June 2006)
WHOIS
Task Force Presentation in Wellington (PDF) (28 March 2006)
WHOIS Task Force Final task force report
on the purpose of Whois and of the Whois contacts (15 March 2006)
GNSO Council report to the ICANN Board (PDF)
(18 January 2006)
FINAL Preliminary Task Force Report
on the Purpose of Whois (PDF)
(18 January 2006)
DRAFT Preliminary Task Force Report
on the Purpose of Whois (23 December 2005)
GNSO Public Forum presentation
in Vancouver (2 December 2005)
Terms
of Reference for WHOIS task force Accepted by the GNSO Council on 2 June
2005
GNSO Public Forum presentations in Mar del Plata (6 April 2005)
WHOIS Task Force 1&2
and 3 list (23 February 2005)
GNSO Council meeting 17 February
2005
Transcript: Whois task
force 1/2 open call on CRISP (12 January 2005)
The Internet Registry Information Service
(IRIS) Protocol Presentation by Marco Sanz (DeNIC), Andrew Newton (Verisign)
and Leslie Daigle (Verisign), 12 January, 2005
Whois Task Force 1/2
Policy drafts:
Cape Town ICANN meetings 1 - 5 December 2004
- Recommendations relating
to improving notification and consent for the use of contact data in
the Whois system.
- A Procedure
for conflicts, when there are conflicts between a registrar's of registry's
legal obligations under local privacy laws and their contractual obligations
to ICANN.
WHOIS Update
by Dr. Bruce Tonkin, GNSO Council Chair at ICANN Public Forum, Thursday,
22 July 2004
WHOIS Task Forces
1, 2, 3 Joint Meeting on 20 July, 2004 - Minutes
Public comment period extended to Monday 5 July 2004
Whois Task Force 1 Preliminary
Report
Comments for the Whois Task Force 1 Preliminary Report can be submitted to: whois-tf1-report-comments@gnso.icann.org.
The comment archives are available at: http://gnso.icann.org/mailing-lists/archives/whois-tf1-report-comments
Public comment period extended to Monday 5 July 2004
Whois Task Force 2 Preliminary
Report
Comments for the Whois Task Force 2 Preliminary Report can be submitted to: whois-tf2-report-comments@gnso.icann.org.
The comment archives are available at: http://gnso.icann.org/mailing-lists/archives/whois-tf2-report-comments
Public comment period extended to Monday 5 July 2004
Whois Task Force 3 Preliminary
Report
Comments for the Whois Task Force 3 Preliminary Report can be submitted to: whois-tf3-report-comments@gnso.icann.org.
The comment archives are available at: http://gnso.icann.org/mailing-lists/archives/whois-tf3-report-comments
Notice:
The deadline for responses to the Whois task force 1, 2 and 3 surveys has
been extended. Your participation and time in answering a questionnaire would
be greatly appreciated.
Whois Task Force 1
Whois Task Force 2
Whois Task Force 3
WHOIS Montreal
Workshop material (Posted 3 February 2004)
MP3 Survey
Results (22 January 2004)
WHOIS Historical Presentations (PDFs)
RAA sections: WHOIS
services, data collection, display, accuracy (16 December 2003)
WHOIS Task Force Representatives (17
November 2003)
Mandate
to form WHOIS Privacy Steering Group
Staff
Manager's Issues report on Privacy Issues Related to WHOIS
Whois Steering Committee Mailing
List Archives
WHOIS Privacy
Steering Group Membership and Liaisons
WHOIS Privacy
Issue table
Meetings/Minutes
18/19 September 2003
Meeting Minutes
7/8 August 2003 Meeting
Minutes
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