Transparency Report 2021-2022

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This report covers the period 1 July 2021 to 30 June 2022. It is the fourth Transparency Report covering requests for personal information and domain name suspensions.

96360

1 July 2021

101336

1 July 2022 

5

Government entities

2

Other ccTLDs

2019/2020

2

2020/2021

0

2021/2022

0

2

requests were received for additional information

2019/2020:

0

2020/2021

0

2021/2022

0

0 zone files were released

313

domain names were followed up on by the Commission.

175

of those were cancelled as the registrant did not validate their registration details, with the remaining names being validated.

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We are continuously improving our current validation process. We are focusing on allowing registrants adequate time to validate and are reviewing other validation processes that may be appropriate to adopt.

0 requests were received

2019/20

0

2020/21

0

2021/2022

0

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We encourage anyone to report a domain name that they have identified as not meeting the basic requirements that the registrant is contactable at the details that they have provided and that they are a properly constituted organisation or an individual person. 

Additional monitoring for COVID-19 registered domain names ceased in August 2021. The Commission released a reporting form for fake webshops along with the Shopsafe campaign in November 2021.

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