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Argentina (.AR) Latest ccTLD To Adopt Identification Requirements

March 30, 2010 by Michael Berkens

The registry for the .AR ccTLD has passed identification rules for registrants for existing and new domains.

All current registrants of .AR domain names must make sure the whois info including its name, address, telephone number fax number is up to date and accurate, and the e-mail address listed on the registration must be valid and working.

In addition, registrants must provide either their tax identification code (Código Único de Identificación Tributaria, or CUIT) or their national identity document number (Documento Nacional de Identidad,  or DNI). Thus, any entity which has registered a domain name under a fake name or company must update the domain name ownership details before the given deadline.

Failure to update any registrant information by May 31 2010 will result in the cancellation of the registrant in NIC Argentina’s database, along with the cancellation of any associated domain names on June 1, 2010.

The .AR registry is just one of several ccTLD registry’s that have announced identification requirements.

The .CN registry for China and the .RU registry for Russia already announced such requirements.

Additionally police organizations are lobbying ICANN to adopt stricter identification requirements for all gTLD’s.

Filed Under: ccTLD's

About Michael Berkens

Michael Berkens, Esq. is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of TheDomains.com. Michael is also the co-founder of Worldwide Media Inc. which sold around 70K domain to Godaddy.com in December 2015 and now owns around 8K domain names . Michael was also one of the 5 Judges selected for the the Verisign 30th Anniversary .Com contest.

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Comments

  1. LCDwallpapers.com and LCDscreensavers.com ETC. says

    March 30, 2010 at 9:47 am

    the TLDs game: domains with .ar

    w.ar

    b.ar

    li.ar

    c.ar

    be.ar

    .

  2. LCDwallpapers.com and LCDscreensavers.com ETC. says

    March 30, 2010 at 11:07 am

    “What % Of Fortune 500 Companies Will Apply For Their Own Extension?”

    less than 1% is my answer and the answer of 38% of readers

    why some companies want have a TLD to be used by a dozen sites?

    .

  3. rob sequin says

    March 30, 2010 at 1:26 pm

    Another landmine in the country code TLD space.

    Walk carefully.

  4. MHB says

    March 30, 2010 at 1:28 pm

    Rob

    I think the handwriting is on the wall and that in a few years everyone owning a domain including .com’s are going to have to verify their identity

  5. rob sequin says

    March 30, 2010 at 1:38 pm

    Agree but don’t ALL registrants verify their identity with their registrar when they register/transfer in a domain?

    ALL domain registrations are paid by credit card so the registrar knows “somebody” with a valid credit card.

    Not like we are walking in paying cash for a domain at a registrar.

    What about customer privacy? So long as the registrar knows their customer, why should anyone else have the right to know.

    Having residency restrictions is fine and understandable but as long as the registrar knows its customer, that should be good enough.

  6. MHB says

    March 30, 2010 at 1:42 pm

    Rob

    Some registrars accept paypal, most accept wires, some people use someone elses credit card, like relatives or friends who don’t have a CC.

    I think there will be a requirement that the central registry have a real name, address and e-mail for every domain so that if your spamming, phishing or doing something they don’t like they know where they come and get you.

    I’m not supporting it, or pushing for it I just think its coming.

    Sooner than later.

  7. Chip Meade says

    March 30, 2010 at 3:39 pm

    In an effort to boost the number of overall registrations, .ar provided free registration of their domains a few years a go. Their place in the pecking order of ccTLDs skyrocketed as a result. Wonder how much of that was attributed to non-Argentenian’s(sp?)? Did they bring this on themselves?

  8. LCDwallpapers.com and LCDscreensavers.com ETC. says

    March 30, 2010 at 9:29 pm

    the excess of controls and regulations creates problems and costs only to the 99.999% of people that use the domains respecting the laws, while, they never stop the activity of bad guys that can use domains registered by others (paid) for accomplish scams and bad commercial activities

  9. LCDwallpapers.com and LCDscreensavers.com ETC. says

    March 31, 2010 at 6:45 am

    it seems that sex.com could be really given away to PETA

  10. Mountain says

    March 31, 2010 at 12:35 pm

    Validating WhoIs information in a single country where a national ID is mandated is one thing, how would you mandate that globally? State drivers license programs can’t keep their addresses current and that’s an essential document for most people. Expand that challenge internationally and you have a big mess on your hands.


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