ICANN org has released the performance results of its Registration Data Request Service (RDRS) for June. The RDRS is a pilot project by ICANN designed to provide legal entities and individuals – who have valid grounds – with a way to request domain name registrants’ records.
June 2025 proved to be a challenging month for RDRS, as two major companies, Team Internet and Newfold Digital, withdrew from the project. This withdrawal effectively removes ten registrars owned by these companies: 1API GmbH, Internet.bs Corp., Key-Systems GmbH, Key-Systems LLC, Moniker, RegistryGate GmbH, and TLD Registrar Solutions Ltd (subsidiaries of Team Internet), as well as Network Solutions, LLC, Register.com, Inc., and PublicDomainRegistry.com (subsidiaries of Newfold Digital).
According to Domain Incite, this marks the first time since RDRS launched in late November 2023 that participation has fallen below half of all gTLD domains providing data through the system. As a result, RDRS can now supply requested records for just 47% of existing domains, down from 54% in May.
The number of participating registrars also dropped from 88 to 78. Simultaneously, RDRS saw a record low in request volume, receiving only 68 Whois record inquiries in June. However, the situation could still shift: representatives of ICANN’s Governmental Advisory Committee recently stated that it wants the ICANN Board to consider making RDRS mandatory for all registrars.
