WHOIS ARS
WHOIS Accuracy Reporting System
An ICANN Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers The nonprofit that coordinates the global DNS and gTLD policy. Full definition of ICANN project that tested samples of gTLD generic top-level domain A top-level domain not tied to a country, run under ICANN contracts. Full definition of gTLD WHOIS The legacy lookup service for domain registration data, now replaced by RDAP for gTLDs. Full definition of WHOIS records to see whether contact details were well formed and working. It published reports from 2015 until 2018, when ICANN paused it because privacy rules had hidden most of the data. It has not restarted.
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- Registration data and privacy