German (DE) 
This specification was introduced with the RAA 2013 and is to make the WHOIS data more reliable globally. For this, ICANN requires that all certified registrars review the email address of the domain holders after registration, transfer or data change. If the domain holder does not comply with such review request within 15 days, the domain must be switched off.
Existing domains and their handles are NOT affected. These are considered to be already "validated". We start the program on 2015-11-05 for domains under the nTLDs. For all remaining domains under the old gTLDs we start on 2015-12-01 with the validation.
The following actions at a domain will cause start of validation:
- Registration
- Transfer
- Change of owner data
But only if
- The owner handle (Owner-C) used has not been validated yet
The process is competed/interrupted if
- a new owner handle (Owner-C) for the domain is registered in between
- validation for another domain with the same owner handle (Owner-C) has successfully been completed
If the domain holder does not react directly to the test request,
- the domain holder will receive a reminder email every 48 hours
- the provider relevant for the domain will be sent a message on the 7th, 14th and 21st day after start of the review (type "message")
- the domain is marked as "not verified" on the 21st day. At the moment, we do not yet directly deactivate the domain at that time (contrary to the ICANN specification), but will try to solve the process differently.