[Aftld-members] [ccnso-members] Changes Coming to Registry Reports on ICANN's Open Data Platform

[Barrack Otieno]

Dear All,

ICANN announced that beginning on 15 March 2021, ICANN's Open Data
platform [1] will become the permanent home of Registry Reports [2].
With this change, these reports will no longer be available on
https://icann.org [3] as of 15 March 2021. ICANN org is providing this
update to inform the community of these upcoming changes.

Read more here:

https://www.icann.org/news/announcement-2021-01-07-en

Which Registry Reports Are Available on ICANN's Open Data Platform?

  	* Registry Functions Activity Reports
	* Per-Registrar Transactions Reports

What's Changing?

Both the Registry Functions Activity Reports and Per-Registrar
Transactions Reports will only be available on ICANN's Open Data
platform [1]. As noted above, these reports will no longer be available
on https://icann.org [3] as of 15 March 2021. If you have links
bookmarked to these reports or pages, you will be redirected to the Open
Data platform [1].

If you have an automated script that downloads registry reports from
https://icann.org [3], you will need to modify your script to use the
ICANN Open Data API to download the reports. Before you can access the
Open Data platform, you must create an ICANN Account [4]. Once you have
an account, you will be able to use the Open Data platform API.

Why Are We Making This Change?

A goal of the Open Data platform is to increase the transparency and
accessibility of data managed by ICANN org. The platform's creation is
the result of collaborative work between the community and the org.
ICANN org launched [5] the Open Data platform in March 2020 with a
series of datasets.

Registered users can search, browse, view, download, and analyze the
data, according to the platform's terms and conditions and the
license(s) applied to each dataset. Registration also allows users to
save customized analysis, receive notifications when selected datasets
are updated, generate API keys, and view API quota usage.

Background on Registry Reports

Registry operators provide a set of monthly reports per generic
top-level domain name (gTLD) to ICANN org. The monthly reports include
the Per-Registrar Transactions Report and Registry Functions Activity
Report. ICANN org publishes these reports, on a monthly basis, three
months after the end of the month to which the reports provided by the
registry operators relate. This is done to preserve the confidentiality
of the reported information during that period as required by the
registry agreement.

Monthly reports consist of data that reflects the state of the registry
at the end of the month. For additional information about the data
contained in these reports, please see Specification 3 of the Base gTLD
Registry Agreement found on the Registry Agreement landing page [6].

For more information about the Open Data API, please visit ICANN's Open
Data platform [1] or the Open Data Soft Help page [7].

Helpful Links

  	* Open Data Platform [1]
	* Registry Reports on ICANN website [2]

If you have questions about this change, please email us at:
OpenData at icann.org

Thank you.

Best regards,

Joke Braeken

ccNSO Policy Advisor

joke.braeken at icann.org



Links:
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[1] https://opendata.icann.org/pages/home-page/
[2] https://www.icann.org/resources/pages/registry-reports
[3] https://www.icann.org/
[4] https://account.icann.org/login
[5] https://www.icann.org/news/announcement-2020-03-11-en
[6] 
https://www.icann.org/resources/pages/registries/registries-agreements-en
[7] https://help.opendatasoft.com/en/home
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Barrack Otieno

General Manager

Africa Top Level Domains Organization

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'The Regional Association of African ccTLDs