Temporary Specification

Emergency rules adopted by the ICANN Board (glossary)ICANN Board ICANN's board of directors, which adopts policies and approves key decisions. Full definition of ICANN Board in May 2018 so gTLD (glossary)gTLD generic top-level domain A top-level domain not tied to a country, run under ICANN contracts. Full definition of gTLD registries (glossary)registry The central database and system of a top-level domain, or loosely the organization that runs it. Full definition of registry and registrars (glossary)registrar A company that registers domain names for customers with the registry. Full definition of registrar could follow their contracts while also complying with the GDPR (glossary)GDPR General Data Protection Regulation The European Union data protection law that led to hiding personal data in WHOIS. Full definition of GDPR. They hid most personal data from WHOIS (glossary)WHOIS The legacy lookup service for domain registration data, now replaced by RDAP for gTLDs. Full definition of WHOIS. They expired in 2019 and were followed by interim and later permanent policy.