gTLD Registration Dataflow Matrix and Information
ICANN policies and contracts require contracted parties to collect, create, retain, escrow, and publish a variety of data elements related to registry and registrar operations, domain name registrations, and registrants. The ICANN organization is investigating whether there are potential compliance issues under its agreements with registries and registrars because of the European Union General Data Privacy Regulation. With the help from contracted parties and interested stakeholders, ICANN has collected information needed to help evaluate GDPR compliance in the context of registry, registrar, and registrant data. This information will be used to inform legal analysis, as well as to engage with data protection authorities.
User Types and Purposes
At the end of June 2017, ICANN asked contracted parties and interested stakeholders to identify user types and purposes of data elements required by ICANN policies and contracts. The individual responses received and a compilation of the responses are provided below. We encourage the public to review this information and provide any additional user types and purposes not already captured. Any additional submissions will be added to the matrix and an updated will be posted in late August.
If you have additional information you'd like to add to the matrix, please use the template below and send the completed template to globalsupport@icann.org.
Overall Summary Document
Data Flow Matrix Documents
Dataflow Matrix, Compilation of Responses Received – Current Version [XLSX, 113 KB]
Dataflow Template [PDF, 412 KB]
Responses Received
At-Large Advisory Committee (ALAC) [PDF, 74 KB] |
Business Constituency [PDF, 191 KB] |
Contracted Parties House (CPH) – amended 3 October 2017 [XLSX, 32 KB] |
Intellectual Property Constituency (IPC) [PDF, 187 KB] |
Individual Users [XLSX, 10 KB] |
United States Internal Revenue Service (IRS) [PDF, 59 KB] |
Microsoft [PDF, 88 KB] |
United States Department of Justice (DOJ)/Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) [PDF, 68 KB] |
Governmental Advisory Committee (GAC) Public Safety Working Group (PSWG) [XLSX, 10 KB] |
Criminal and Consumer Protection Law Enforcement Agency [PDF, 185 KB] |
EUROPOL, European Cybercrime Centre (EC3) [PDF, 91 KB] |
Individual User - Ayden Férdeline [PDF, 87 KB] |
Domain Tools [XLSX, 74 KB] |
Archived Documents
Dataflow Matrices - Previous Versions
Version dated 2 August 2017 [XLSX, 61 KB]
Version dated 15 August 2017 [XLSX, 62 KB]
Version dated 23 August 2017 [XLSX, 64 KB]
Version dated 29 August 2017 [XLSX, 66 KB]
Dataflow Summaries - Previous Versions
Version dated 11 September 2017 [PDF, 686 KB]