As we prepare for ICANN87 in Bali, Indonesia, here’s your regularly-scheduled data-dump about TACO requests. First, a note about our June 2026 TACO stats post. Human error resulted in the post including a truncated data set; it reflected the period from January only through March instead of through to the end of April 2026. That […]
ICANN Contracted Parties—domain registrars and registries—met for the CP Summit in Manchester, UK, at the end of April. The two-day agenda covered policy and operational topics so, before delving into our latest TACO stats, we are sharing some highlights from the various sessions and discussions. Day one of the Summit covered operational topics, starting with […]
Two important questions have been gaining traction within the ICANN community in 2025: how should registrars disclose information protected by Whois Privacy services, and should third-party proxy services be regulated as a new Contracted Party? There was a lot of conversation—both scheduled and informal—around these topics at previous ICANN meetings, and it will continue at […]
The lead-up to ICANN83, which will be held next week in Prague, feels much shorter than usual, as ICANN-accredited registrars and registries just held our Contracted Parties Summit in early May. This was a useful series of working sessions and discussions. Most focused around operational issues—especially addressing DNS Abuse—but another topic came up in conversations […]
Welcome to your regularly scheduled TACO stats blog! In the lead-up to ICANN82 in Seattle, we’re thinking about ICANN’s Registration Data Request Service (RDRS). Tucows has been a participant in the RDRS pilot project since its launch at the end of 2023, and we’ve written about it in past blogs. For those unfamiliar with the […]