Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers

Contractual Compliance Audits

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).

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