Understanding WHOIS Registrant contact verification

[chris]

Via the VentraIP blog, a heads up about new verification that is being implemented as part of the ICANN 2013 RAA for gTLD and newTLD domain names.

What is WHOIS Registrant contact verification?
As part of ICANN’s 2013 RAA, we need to verify the Registrant contact information when a new domain name is registered, when a domain name is transferred or when domain name contacts are updated on domain names and that process is being called ‘WHOIS Registrant contact verification’. It’s not really a fancy or flashy name, but we think it’s nice and fitting, which is why we’re sticking with it.

How does it affect me?
If you’re registering a new domain name, transferring a domain name or updating contacts on an existing domain name, then the Registrant email address will be sent an email with a specially encoded link which needs to be clicked in order to validate the Registrant contact information. It’s important to note that this doesn’t affect existing domain names (until, of course, the contacts are updated on the domain name).

.AU domain names are not affected by this change.

Note, as mentioned above .au domains are not affected.

The team at VentraIP have written a good post with lots of info:

http://ventraip.com.au/blog/announcements/understanding-whois-registrant-contact-verification/

Cheers,
Chris