Notwithstanding anything else in this Agreement, Registry Operator must offer a searchable Whois service compliant with the requirements described in Section 1.3 of Specification 4 of this Agreement. Registry Operator must implement at least one of the following mechanisms in order to prevent abuse of the searchable Whois service:
· Username and password based authentication.
· Certificate based authentication.
· CAPTCHA (Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart) with rate-limiting mechanism to prevent repetitive invocation of the service.
RS.1.2.Approved gTLDs
Please specify all gTLDs for which you are the RSP where the service is currently
approved and specified in an existing ICANN Registry Agreement.
Response
.audible, .author and others.
RS.1.3.Service Description
Please provide the proposed language that describes the service. By providing this language, the RSP agrees to notify gTLD applicants that this language will be used in the registry agreement if the service is supported in the gTLD.
Response
Notwithstanding anything else in this Agreement, Registry Operator must offer a searchable Whois service compliant with the requirements described in Section 1.10 of Specification 4 of this Agreement. Registry Operator must implement at least one of the following mechanisms in order to prevent abuse of the searchable Whois service:
· Username and password based authentication.
· Certificate based authentication.
· CAPTCHA (Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart) with rate-limiting mechanism to prevent repetitive invocation of the service.
