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Contractual Compliance Reports 2018

Annual Report

(Effective January 2019, no further Annual Reports will be published; Please refer to ICANN Annual Report at this page https://www.icann.org/resources/pages/governance/annual-report-en)

Quarterly Report

2018 Contractual Compliance Quarter One Report [PDF, 405 KB]

2018 Contractual Compliance Quarter Two Report [PDF, 296 KB]

(Effective 1 July 2018, no further Quarterly Reports will be published)

Contractual Compliance Reports 2017

Annual Report

2017 Contractual Compliance Annual Report [PDF, 1 MB]

Quarterly Report

2017 Contractual Compliance Quarter One Report [PDF, 592 KB]

2017 Contractual Compliance Quarter Two Report [PDF, 866 KB]

2017 Contractual Compliance Quarter Three Report [PDF, 322 KB]

2017 Contractual Compliance Quarter Four Report [PDF, 216 KB]

Contractual Compliance Reports 2016

Annual Report

2016 Contractual Compliance Annual Report [PDF, 1.16 MB]

Quarterly Report

2016 Contractual Compliance Quarter One Report [PDF, 591 KB]

2016 Contractual Compliance Quarter Two Report [PDF, 547 KB]

2016 Contractual Compliance Quarter Three Report [PDF, 486 KB]

2016 Contractual Compliance Quarter Four Report [PDF, 804 KB]

Contractual Compliance Reports 2015

Annual Report

2015 Contractual Compliance Annual Report [PDF, 681 KB]

Quarterly Report

2015 Contractual Compliance Quarter Four Report [PDF, 545 KB]

2015 Contractual Compliance Quarter Three Report [PDF, 553 KB]

2015 Contractual Compliance Quarter Two Report [PDF, 537 KB]

2015 Contractual Compliance Quarter One Report [PDF, 579 KB]

Contractual Compliance Reports 2014

Annual Report

2014 Contractual Compliance Annual Report [PDF, 5.93 MB]

Monthly Report

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Contractual Compliance Reports 2013

Annual Report

2013 Contractual Compliance Annual Report [PDF, 909 KB]

Monthly Report

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Contractual Compliance Reports 2012

Annual Report

2012 Contractual Compliance Annual Report [PDF, 555 KB]

Monthly Report

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Contractual Compliance Reports 2011

Other Reports

Contractual Compliance Reports 2010

Monthly Reports

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Other Report

May 2010 Registrar Primary / Public Contact Survey Report [PDF, 196 KB]

General Compliance Updates

  • Transfer problems most consistently top all consumer complaints received by ICANN. Usually, they represent 20 to 30 percent of complaints that ICANN processes. To address this issue, an IRTP Audit Plan was designed and developed by Contractual Compliance with input and feedback from a number of key registrar representatives and various ICANN departments. A beta test on the IRTP Audit Plan was conducted in May 2010. Click here to read the full audit report.

  • ICANN commenced a Port 43 Whois Access beta audit in October 2010 to assess whether registrar provide Port 43 Whois Access as required by RAA Section 3.3. ICANN developed a software tool that monitors registrars' Port 43 Whois availability. Beta audit findings will be published in February 2011.

Contractual Compliance Reports 2009

Annual Reports

Monthly Report

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Contractual Compliance Reports 2008

Annual Report

July 2008 Semi-Annual Contractual Compliance Audit Report [PDF, 439 KB]

Monthly Reports

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Contractual Compliance Reports 2007

October 2007 Semi-Annual Contractual Compliance Audit Report [PDF, 193 KB]

Contractual Compliance Reports 2006

October 2006 Registrar Compliance Update

Domain Name System
Internationalized Domain Name ,IDN,"IDNs are domain names that include characters used in the local representation of languages that are not written with the twenty-six letters of the basic Latin alphabet ""a-z"". An IDN can contain Latin letters with diacritical marks, as required by many European languages, or may consist of characters from non-Latin scripts such as Arabic or Chinese. Many languages also use other types of digits than the European ""0-9"". The basic Latin alphabet together with the European-Arabic digits are, for the purpose of domain names, termed ""ASCII characters"" (ASCII = American Standard Code for Information Interchange). These are also included in the broader range of ""Unicode characters"" that provides the basis for IDNs. The ""hostname rule"" requires that all domain names of the type under consideration here are stored in the DNS using only the ASCII characters listed above, with the one further addition of the hyphen ""-"". The Unicode form of an IDN therefore requires special encoding before it is entered into the DNS. The following terminology is used when distinguishing between these forms: A domain name consists of a series of ""labels"" (separated by ""dots""). The ASCII form of an IDN label is termed an ""A-label"". All operations defined in the DNS protocol use A-labels exclusively. The Unicode form, which a user expects to be displayed, is termed a ""U-label"". The difference may be illustrated with the Hindi word for ""test"" — परीका — appearing here as a U-label would (in the Devanagari script). A special form of ""ASCII compatible encoding"" (abbreviated ACE) is applied to this to produce the corresponding A-label: xn--11b5bs1di. A domain name that only includes ASCII letters, digits, and hyphens is termed an ""LDH label"". Although the definitions of A-labels and LDH-labels overlap, a name consisting exclusively of LDH labels, such as""icann.org"" is not an IDN."