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Tiered Access Compliance and Operations (TACO) statistics

Tiered Access update: centralized system development, and updated statistics

Our most recent Tiered Access update introduced the ICANN Community’s pilot project for a central intake point for registration data disclosure requests. Now called the Registration Data Request Service (RDRS), this pilot is intended to help gather volume data to inform the ICANN Board’s decision about building a permanent, more feature-rich centralized data request system.  The project […]

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Tiered Access Compliance and Operations (TACO) statistics

Tiered Access update: policy check-in and updated statistics

Tucows launched our Tiered Access Compliance and Operations (TACO) platform nearly five years ago in May 2018. Since then, we’ve processed thousands of disclosure requests, supported hundreds of requestors with their legitimate needs for the disclosure of domain registration data, and made ongoing improvements to our TACO platform (the most recent of which are discussed […]

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Tiered Access Compliance and Operations (TACO) statistics

TACO Platform updates

We are very pleased to announce several updates to the Tucows TACO Platform: Finally, we want to share our thinking behind our decision to start billing for TACO requests, which we’ve been doing since May 2021. Disclosure notice to domain owners We’re committed to data protection, privacy, and transparency. We want domain owners to understand […]

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What do domain status codes mean?

When you do a Whois lookup on a domain, the results include a lot of information. It’ll look something like the image below. Most of the fields are pretty self-explanatory, but the meaning of the “Domain Status” field values isn’t always so clear. In this post, we’ll explain what the various status codes mean, so […]

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August 2022

The GDPR overview

Latest update: March 6, 2018 GDPR basics Our approach to the GDPR Our guiding principles In designing our approach to GDPR compliance, we’re keeping two things in mind: our need to operate within the bounds of legal requirements, and our commitment to keeping domain purchase and management as straightforward, simple, and instantaneous as possible for the […]

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Change of Registrant Re-enablement

On December 1, 2016, ICANN enforced a new Transfer Policy that modified the process of changing domain ownership from one registrant to another. Under this policy, any update to a domain’s registrant contact data must be approved by both the current and new registrant via email. Once both parties have approved the change, each receives a confirmation email that […]

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August 2022

Contract

        WHEREAS, Tucows.com Co., a Nova Scotia Corporation with its principal place of business in Toronto, Ontario, Canada (hereafter “Tucows”), provides certain services defined below as the “Tucows Services;” and         WHEREAS, Customer, the person or entity defined below, wishes to use, resell and/or provision the Tucows Services for itself and the benefit its own Users,         NOW, […]

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July 2022

Domain specific policies and practices

Various registries have policies for things like citizenship or residency requirements, and procedures that must be followed for things like registrations, transfers, and payments. You’ll find that documentation and information listed below. Expired Registration Recovery Policy (ERRP) Download ERRP how-to-guide  gTLD and ccTLD Reference Chart We’ve put together a one-page quick reference chart listing the […]

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