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Registration Abuse Addressed
Registration Abuse Policies Working Group Publishes Final Report
29 May 2010
The Registration Abuse Policies Working Group has published its Final Report today. Following a public comment period on its Initial Report, the Working Group reviewed the comments received and issued this Final Report. The Report includes concrete recommendations to address domain name registration abuse in gTLDs for consideration by the GNSO Council. Included are recommendations related to:
- Cybersquatting: recommending the initiation of a Policy Development Process to investigate the current state of the UDRP .
- WHOIS access problems: seeking ways to ensure that WHOIS data is accessible in an appropriately reliable, enforceable, and consistent fashion; and requesting that the ICANN Compliance Department publish data about WHOIS accessibility.
- Malicious use of domain names: recommending the creation of best practices to help registrars and registries address the illicit use of domain names.
- Front-running: recommending possible enforcement actions by ICANN Compliance
- Cross-TLD registration scam: recommending to monitor and co-ordinate research with the community
- Uniformity of contracts: recommending the creation of an Issues Report to evaluate whether a minimum baseline of registration abuse provisions should be created for all in-scope ICANN agreements.
- GNSO-wide practices for the collection and dissemination of best practices, and for uniformity of reporting.
- Fake renewal notices
- Domain kiting
- Deceptive and/or offensive domain names
Background
On 25 September 2008, the GNSO Council adopted a motion requesting an issues report on registration abuse provisions in registry-registrar agreements. The issues report was submitted to the GNSO Council on 29 October 2008 and provides an overview of existing provisions in registry-registrar agreements relating to abuse and includes a number of recommended next steps. In December 2009, the GNSO Council agreed to charter a Working Group to investigate the open issues identified in Registration Abuse Policies report, before deciding on whether or not to initiate a Policy Development Process (PDP). A Registration Abuse Policies Working Group (RAPWG) was chartered in February 2009. The GNSO Council committed to not making a decision on whether or not to initiate a PDP on registration abuse policies until the RAPWG has presented its findings.
Further information
- Registration Abuse Policies Working Group Final Report - http://gnso.icann.org/issues/rap/rap-wg-final-report-29may10-en.pdf [PDF, 1.73 MB]
- Registration Abuse Policies Working Group Final Report - Executive Summary
- Registration Abuse Policies Workspace - https://st.icann.org/reg-abuse-wg/
- Public comments received on the Initial Report - http://forum.icann.org/lists/rap-initial-report/
Staff responsible: Marika Konings
