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ICANN handles WHOIS complaints on Inaccuracies and Unavailable Services. On 17 May 2018 the ICANN Board adopted a Temporary Specification for gTLD Registration Data. On 20 May 2019, the ICANN Board adopted an Interim Registration Data Policy for gTLDs, requiring contracted parties to continue to implement measures consistent with the Temporary ...

ICANN Lookup - WHOIS Registration data lookup tool Enter a domain name or an Internet number resource (IP Network or ASN) Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) This lookup will try to use the WHOIS service.

Domain Name Registrant Benefits and Responsibilities. Domain name registrants play a key role in ensuring the accuracy of WHOIS. As a domain name registrant, you are required to provide accurate WHOIS contact data, and maintain its accuracy throughout the term of your registration period.

You can check the availability of a domain name by searching for it on the Whois database. It will give you the status of whether the domain name that you are looking for is available or not. Doing this for multiple domain names over time can help you build a list of available domain names.

The basic Latin alphabet together with the European-Arabic digits are, for the purpose of domain names, termed ""ASCII characters"" (ASCII = American Standard Code for Information Interchange). These are also included in the broader range of ""Unicode characters"" that provides the basis for IDNs.

Viewing the WHOIS information for any domain name is as simple as typing the domain name in question into the search bar above. Our tool will allow you to search the WHOIS for most top level domains in order to learn the registrant information as well as the nameservers and associated IP addresses.

The ICANN organization, which registered the "icann.org" name, sets the rules for domain names under "icann.org" and using those rules, creates the name "whois.icann.org". So, when you register a domain name, you are creating a new realm in the DNS and giving that realm a name, which is the domain name that you registered.

For our latest set of insights into policy related to domain names, Winterfeldt IP Group’s Brian Winterfeldt and Glen de Saint Géry analyse developments during the ICANN76 meeting in Cancun. Leadership changes, next round of gTLDs, WHOIS access: takeaways from ICANN76 (Domain Watch) - World Trademark Review