Contractual Compliance conducts random audits to proactively monitor compliance with Whois, the Inter-Registrar Transfer Policy and other terms and conditions of the registrar and registry agreements by contracted parties.
To address Whois related compliance issues, ICANN conducts an annual Whois data accuracy audit, ongoing monitoring of registrars' Whois servers for functionality, and the annual publication of a statistical summary of information gathered from the Whois Data Problem Report System (WDPRS).
- April 2012 Whois Access Audit Report (Port 43) [PDF, 534 KB]
- April 2011 Whois Access Audit Report (Port 43) [PDF, 215 KB]
- December 2010 Inter-Registrar Transfer Policy Audit Report [PDF, 298 KB]
- 2010 Annual Whois Data Reminder Policy Audit
- 2010 Whois Data Reminder Policy Report [PDF, 1.1 MB]
- September 2010 Whois Data Availability Compliance Audit
- 2009 Whois Data Reminder Policy Report [PDF, 1.06 MB]
- May 2007 Registrar Website Compliance Audit Report
- April 2007 ICANN's Whois Data Accuracy and Availability Program: Description of Prior Efforts and New Compliance Initiatives [PDF, 72 KB]
- June 2006 Results of the First gTLD Registry Compliance Audit