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The 12-person team collectively speaks <u>seven languages</u>: Arabic, English, French, Hindi, Mandarin, Spanish and Urdu. The new staff members fill key roles in Performance Measurement and Reporting, Risk and Audit Management and Compliance Complaint Analyst and Manager.<o:p></o:p></span></p><h3><a name=2></a><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Suspension Commences 8 March 2012 for ICANN Accredited Registrar<o:p></o:p></span></h3><p><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>On 16 February 2012 ICANN <a href="http://www.icann.org/en/news/correspondence/burnette-to-acir-16feb12-en.pdf">issued a 30-day suspension</a> [PDF, 310 KB] to registrar, Alantron Bilişim Ltd, for failure to maintain adequate domain registration records and to make those records available for inspection by ICANN.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>The suspension effectively means the ICANN-accredited registrar cannot create any new domain names, nor accept inbound transfers of any registered domain names during the suspension period. Alantron has until 28 March 2012 to cure these breaches to have the suspension lifted. Failure to cure these breaches in a timely manner will result in termination of Alantron’s RAA.<o:p></o:p></span></p><h3><a name=3></a><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>More than 90% of Registrars Respond to Whois Data Reminder Policy Audit<o:p></o:p></span></h3><p><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>The <strong><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>2011 Whois Data Reminder Policy Audit</span></strong> was launched on 26 January 2012. Preliminary audit results show that 846 out of 920 registrars that are under the 2009 RAA, or 91%, responded to the audit. Failure to respond to an ICANN audit request may amount to a breach of the 2009 RAA. Contractual Compliance is following up with those registrars that did not respond, in accordance with our process and the RAA.<o:p></o:p></span></p><h3><a name=4></a><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Registrar and Registry Self-Assessment Questionnaire Pilots<o:p></o:p></span></h3><p><strong><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>The Registrar RAA self-assessment audit questionnaire pilot</span></strong><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> was completed on 20 February 2012. The <strong><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Registry self-assessment questionnaire pilot</span></strong> was launched on 24 February 2012. The pilots are intended to evaluate the tools, the clarity and appropriateness of the questions, ease of data collection, time required for compliance assessment and reporting of results. 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