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Majority of Domain Registrations ‘Faulty’

Domain oversight body ICANN claims that most online domain registrations are incorrect.

Up to 77% of domain registrations have information that is either false or incomplete, the report states. It covers international domain registrations for top level domain extensions .com, .org, .net. .info and .biz.

Checks were made on a random sample of domain registrations to see if the address listed was accurate by checking its ‘deliverability’ by postal companies, and if the registrant was contactable on the phone number listed.

In many cases the information was listed wrong innocently, with just small mistakes in the information provided. However the report found a lot of clear cases where the registrant had no intention of putting accurate details in their registration.