WHOIS Registration Identification Study Webinar - Notes for BC 6th March 2013 19.00 UTC Report is open for public comment http://www.icann.org/en/news/public-comment/whois-regid-15feb13-en.htm Close 9th March 6, 2013 Reply Close 31 March There is only one comment at present. Webinar Intro by Barbara Roseman Presenter Edward Mulrow of Chigago University. Sample of 1600 domains from .com, .net, .org, info, biz with good statistical properties. (Sample of 400 will provide good stat results, so 1600 chosen as we knew there would be sub groups) Data collected by auto tool bot written called NORC-BOT in Python ICANN ran a parallel collection. All on one day in March 2012. Only www and ww2 sub-domains checked for content. Domain user is apparent user and relation to registrant Domain Content - noted if potentially harmful. Registrant classified into: Natural Person, 39% Legal Person, 33% Privacy / Proxy 20% Unclassified.(data missing, patently false, pending deletion) 8% Apparent Domain User: Legal Person, 37% No content 26% Parked 21% Unknown 12% Natural Person, 5% User to Registrant relation Undetermined 55% Proxy – Privacy 20% Same 17% Employer/ee 5% Customer Other 3% 23% of domains with comercial user registered for privacy/proxy 55% we could not determine content user to registrant. This was exploratory first study only. Any questions can be asked in the public forum. Call Questions. Steve Metalitz: QUESTION: If an apparent natural person registers mutliple domain names, is the registrant treated as a legal person? Or was reverse whois run only if the registrant type was not clear? Michael Jugovich: @steve metalitz: reverse whois was one of the variables considered, generally users with large numbers of domains were considered legal persons, however, this can not be a generalized statement applied to all instances of coding. Jennifer Sime: QUESTION: Does a privacy/proxy service entity essentially mean that they could potentially be a natural or legal person but it's undetermined because they went through a proxy, or am I missing the mark entirely Steven Pedlow: Answer to Jennifer: Registrant is spearate from Domain User. Yes, this slide makes the distinction clear. Chris Chaplow: Is a marketing name of micro business considered Legal person or natural Person? Michael Jugovich: @Chris Chaplow: as the name referes to a business it would be considered a legal person Avri Doria: QUESTION: Knowing NORC data from a previous life time, I am wondering whether the analysis could have differentiated between commercial and non commercial legal persons. Also wondering whether data was collected on whether organizations were engaged in public service, such as women's shelters or human rights advocacy offices. John McCormac - HosterStats.com: QUESTION Were the domains randomly sampled over the TLDs or was any adjustment made for different usage development in TLDS outside .com? Steven Pedlow: Answer to John: the domains were randomly sampled within gTLD. Chris Chaplow Managing Director Andalucia.com S.L. Avenida del Carmen 9 Ed. Puertosol, Puerto Deportivo 1ª Planta, Oficina 30 Estepona, 29680 Malaga, Spain Tel: + (34) 952 897 865 Fax: + (34) 952 897 874 E-mail: <mailto:chris@andalucia.com> chris@andalucia.com Web: <http://www.andalucia.com/> www.andalucia.com Information about Andalucia, Spain.