ICANN Annual Report – Privacy & Proxy Services Under Spotlight

January 4, No Comments

ICANN has released its 2009 Annual Report over the Christmas / New Years period (just when nobody was looking).

Here is one very interesting paragraph on private registrations. “ICANN has obtained preliminary results of its study of domain names, registered among the top five gTLDs, which appear to have been registered using a privacy or proxy service. ICANN published preliminary findings on its website (that 15-25% of these domain name registrations used these services) and will seek validation of the study’s findings with the registrars of record for those domain names.“  Of course, some would call that an invasion of privacy. The results will make an interesting read….

Overall, the 2009 report is a goldmine of breach notices, consumer complaints, terminations and non-renewals – far too many to list here. If need some humorous bedtime reading you can download it directly.