Councilors,

We could not get to this during the AOB of our recent meeting, but it's a fairly straightforward question.

After reconvening, the DNS Abuse Small Team arrived at the conclusion that currently we do not have enough information available for bulk registrations to be the subject of policy deliberations. While not closing the subject permanently, we are suggesting closing it for now. Attached is the full document with the sequence of communications between the involved parties. Below, in plain text, is the response itself.

Mindful of the time sensitivity of this for ICANN 77 and cognizant of the fact that the document was initially circulated on May 15, we are hoping to receive comments, if any, by June 5, in order to be able to formalize the response.

Plain text:

"ICANN’s recently started Inferential Analysis of Maliciously Registered Domains (INFERMAL) project seems to indicate a willingness from the org. to look into this matter and provide us with better statistics and intelligence. We have also heard from the colleagues at the DNS Abuse Institute that this could be on their radar.

Our preliminary conclusion has been that this does not fall within the realm of Consensus Policy at the moment. With the understanding that the above does not directly relate to policy, we appreciate the importance of other bodies taking these matters into consideration."