[ICANN]<http://www.icann.org/> News Alert https://www.icann.org/news/announcement-2015-04-27-en ________________________________ ICANN Announces Effective Dates for Additional Whois Information Policy and Whois Advisory 27 April 2015 - ICANN today announced that the effective date of the Additional Whois Information Policy<https://www.icann.org/resources/pages/policy-awip-2014-07-02-en> (AWIP) and Whois advisory<https://www.icann.org/resources/pages/registry-agreement-raa-rdds-2015-04-27...> is 31 January 2016. In addition, ICANN has published an updated Whois advisory based on input from the community. The updated Whois advisory is intended to provide clarification for contracted parties regarding Registration Data Directory Service (RDDS) specifications of the Registry Agreement and Registrar Accreditation Agreement. RDDS specifications are also known as Whois. Registries and Registrars have until 31 January 2016 to implement the AWIP and the Whois advisory. Contracted parties will receive formal notice within the next two weeks. If you have questions or concerns, please submit them to customerservice@icann.org<mailto:customerservice@icann.org>. ________________________________ About ICANN ICANN's mission is to ensure a stable, secure and unified global Internet. To reach another person on the Internet you have to type an address into your computer - a name or a number. That address has to be unique so computers know where to find each other. ICANN coordinates these unique identifiers across the world. Without that coordination we wouldn't have one global Internet. ICANN was formed in 1998. It is a not-for-profit public-benefit corporation with participants from all over the world dedicated to keeping the Internet secure, stable and interoperable. It promotes competition and develops policy on the Internet's unique identifiers. ICANN doesn't control content on the Internet. It cannot stop spam and it doesn't deal with access to the Internet. But through its coordination role of the Internet's naming system, it does have an important impact on the expansion and evolution of the Internet. For more information please visit: www.icann.org<https://www.icann.org/>