ICANN Revamps WHOIS Compliance Program
The June INTA Bulletin reports that ICANN has recently revamped its contractual compliance program to ensure that TLD registrars and registries abide by the requirements of their ICANN agreements, which include providing a WHOIS service with accurate information, protecting registration and registered name holder data, complying with minimal functional and performance standards and ICANN registration policies, having a policy and procedure for resolving domain name disputes and following restrictions on the registration of reserved names. According to the article, ICANN intends to implement specific procedures for addressing TLD registrars and registries that are not in compliance with contracts, including investigating alleged violations, conducting regular compliance audits and providing transparent reporting of ICANN's compliance activities.
