We released a few new features, one of them, RDAP reseller Vcard.
To further streamline abuse reports & disclosure requests, Realtime Register introduces the Abuse Vcard. This Vcard will display your (reseller role) abuse contact details through RDAP.
Showing your (external) abuse contact information will increase the speed of abuse reporting.
Internal abuse email address/information.
Resellers can also enter abuse contact information for our abuse & support staff.
We are not setting requirements here for our resellers, but it would be good if this email address is monitored 24/7. We intend to use this info for emergency communications when dealing …
Just before ICANN 61, ICANN and its community received essential information regarding WHOIS and the GDPR and more.
The latest statement and recommendations are from the Berlin Group (International Working Group on Data Protection in Telecommunications and Media or IWGDPT).
The Berlin Group started out in 1983 on the initiative of some national data protection authorities; nowadays members include government agencies, representatives of international organizations and IT experts from all over the world.
So basically we have the opinion on ICANN and registrant data and WHOIS vetted by all the members of the International Conference of Data Protection and Privacy …
Kevin Murphy from DomainIncite has written an excellent article about the all the ins and outs how WHOIS might look like in May this year, which you can read here.
I do not entirely agree with Kevin if privacy services are going to be free.
In the current setup, our privacy proxy service still has added value when it comes to spam prevention.
I think it is more accurate, that if ICANN no longer requires personal data to be displayed in the WHOIS the need use a privacy service to prevent such display of personal data becomes obsolete, after …
Today the Registrar Stakeholder Group (RrSG) has joined its colleagues in the Registry Stakeholder Group, Eco Association of the Internet Industry and the Internet Infrastructure Coalition in raising its concerns with ICANN about GDPR.
The letter was drafted last week and got so much support from the registrar members that we could officially support it as a stakeholder group. Realtime Register B.V. was one of the supporters.
The letter to the ICANN CEO located here, can be described as “spicy,” or “\strong.” And I think it is with good reason. Since March 2016 a dedicated small group of registrars and …
There has been a considerable debate whatever ICANN will enforce the contractual agreement between registrars and registries to display personal data in the WHOIS.
Publication of personal data in the WHOIS is usually in conflict with many data protection laws around the world.
The EU GDPR and its substantial non-compliance fines seem to sway the discussion into a direction where ICANN needs to come up with solutions. And they did: ICANN published several models that propose to limit the publication of personal data in the WHOIS. The next step is that the ICANN community analyzes these models.
The models created …
The migration of the Verisign Thick WHOIS has been delayed until 29th November.
This is a welcome change from the original migration data which was set at 1-August-2017.
We at Realtime Register were not planning to migrate on this data anyways, as we are still reviewing the EU GDPR and its impact.
Currently, ICANN is collecting community input regarding the EU GDPR till September this year. In November ICANN will present the results which will provide more clarity regarding the fact if ICANN is the data controller or not according to the EU GDPR. Furthermore, Registrars expect more clarity at …
Early 2009, .TEL started out with about 120,000 registrations. In the next year, it grew to a 250,000 and registrations reached their peak in 2011 with about 340,000 registrations. After this, the numbers started to decline rapidly. Currently there are slightly less .TEL names registered then short after the start of the general availability in 2009.
A crippled TLD?
The .TEL was promoted as a platform for publishing contact details online through a dedicated telhosting platform. You might consider it like an online Rolodex. The use of this extension was restricted to this platform. This was of course a limitation …
Eight new email templates and six web
page templates are available in the production environment. Of course, we made sure they are easy to spot. All essential information is already in the templates.
I recommend adding extra information to your templates. For instance: you can add information in your customers’ native language or encourage them to get in touch with you if they have any questions.
The web templates are used for the confirmation forms at mydomainprovider.com. That is the branded environment in which your customers accept changes, transfers and validations. The email templates are sent in HTML format …
Familiarize yourself with the upcoming transfer policy changes by reading the Realtime Register IRTP-C newsletter and the checklist below.
How this policy will impact your business
Once the IRTP-C is in effect, the impact will be noticeable for resellers and their end users. The most important changes are:
- It will no longer be possible to change the registrant of a domain name with a simple domain modification request;
- Any Material Change of the registrant’s details of any gTLD domain will invoke a (branded) request for approval, unless the reseller acts a Designated Agent;
- After the Material Change has been …
Familiarize yourself with the upcoming transfer policy changes by reading the Realtime Register IRTP-C newsletter and the checklist below.
How this policy will impact your business
Once the IRTP-C is in effect, the impact will be noticeable for resellers and their end users. The most important changes are:
- It will no longer be possible to change the registrant of a domain name with a simple domain modification request;
- Any Material Change of the registrant’s details of any gTLD domain will invoke a (branded) request for approval, unless the reseller acts a Designated Agent;
- After the Material Change has been …