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What does the PanamaRegistrar transparency report contain?
The PanamaRegistrar transparency report has no figures yet, as of October 2026. The first report is due January 2027 and covers launch to 31 December 2026. Reports then come out every quarter. Each one counts complaints, court orders, data requests and suspensions in 18 fixed categories, shown below as an empty template.
Report status
| Figures published so far | None: the first period is not over |
|---|---|
| First report | January 2027 |
| Period covered | launch to 31 December 2026 |
| Cadence | every quarter |
| Categories | 18 counted categories, plus timing and reputation measures |
| Outcomes | Received, acted on, refused, and for data requests: approved, partially approved, denied |
| Identifying details | None: no domain names, no customer or complainant names |
Why does the report have no numbers yet?
Because the first reporting period ends on 31 December 2026, and a number before then would be a guess.
The first report covers launch to 31 December 2026. It will be published January 2027, after the period is closed and each entry is checked against the written record. Every complaint, order and request already received is logged with its reference number, so nothing needs to be reconstructed.
We publish the template now so that the categories are fixed before any figure exists. A category cannot be dropped later because its number looks bad.
What will each report count?
The template of the first report. Every cell is empty until January 2027. "Acted on" means any action on a domain or any release of data; "refused" means none.
| Category | Received | Acted on | Refused |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. Copyright complaints, including DMCA notices | — | — | — |
| 2. Defamation complaints | — | — | — |
| 3. Privacy and personal data complaints | — | — | — |
| 4. Political or government content complaints | — | — | — |
| 5. Competitor complaints | — | — | — |
| 6. Impersonation complaints without fraud | — | — | — |
| 7. Phishing and pharming reports | — | — | — |
| 8. Malware and botnet reports | — | — | — |
| 9. Fraud reports (money taken from victims) | — | — | — |
| 10. Child sexual abuse material reports | — | — | — |
| 11. Spam reports | — | — | — |
| 12. Panamanian court orders | — | — | — |
| 13. Ministerio Público orders (Code of Criminal Procedure arts. 338-A, 338-C) | — | — | — |
| 14. Foreign judgments recognised in Panama by exequatur | — | — | — |
| 15. Foreign requests without Panamanian legal process | — | 0 by rule | — |
| 16. Urgent requests (threat to life, serious injury, child abuse material) | — | — | — |
| 17. UDRP and URS cases (counted separately) | — | — | — |
| 18. Suspensions under the strict exceptions (total) | — | — | — |
Category 15 is refused by policy: a foreign court, police force, lawyer or government reaches us through Panamanian legal process only. The count shows how often that rule applied.
How will speed and abuse levels be measured?
Four measures sit beside the counts. They show whether the strict exceptions are applied in time, and whether abuse concentrates on our domains.
| Measure | Definition | First value |
|---|---|---|
| Median time to act: phishing, malware, fraud | From a well-documented report to suspension; our commitment is within 24 hours of a well-documented report | January 2027 |
| Median time to act: child sexual abuse material | From the report to suspension; our commitment is immediately, and the URLs are reported to NCMEC | January 2027 |
| Domains listed by Spamhaus DBL | Our domains on the Spamhaus Domain Blocklist at the end of the period | January 2027 |
| Abuse ratio, Domain Metrica method | ICANN publishes this ratio per accredited registrar, so it covers every customer of our registrar partner. We give the same measure for the domains registered through PanamaRegistrar, from the same public block lists | January 2027 |
How will data requests be reported?
Data requests get their own table, by country of origin and outcome. The outcomes are the three that ICANN used for its own disclosure statistics.
| Country of origin | Requests | Approved | Partially approved | Denied |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Panama | — | — | — | — |
| Each other country, one row per country | — | — | — | — |
| Total | — | — | — | — |
How are the figures counted?
Each figure follows written rules, applied the same way in every report.
- Unit. One complaint, order or request is one entry, even if it names several domains. The number of domains concerned is given beside it.
- Duplicates. The same complaint sent twice by the same sender is one entry.
- Category. A message is counted under the category we used to decide on it. A copyright notice that also shows phishing is counted under phishing.
- Outcome. An entry still open on the last day of the period is shown as pending and counted again when it closes.
- Orders. Panamanian court orders, Ministerio Público orders and recognised foreign judgments are counted separately. Our rule for all three: we confirm every order with the court or prosecutor's office that issued it, through its official contact details, before acting.
- Confidential orders. An order with a confidentiality duty, such as a preservation order under art. 338-A, appears in the totals only.
- Time to act. Measured from the time a well-documented report reaches us to the time of suspension. A report completed later is measured from the evidence that made it complete.
Published reports are not edited afterwards. A correction appears in the next report, with the reason.
How does this compare with ICANN's RDRS statistics?
Our data-request table uses the same outcomes as ICANN's Registration Data Request Service (RDRS), so the two can be read side by side.
The RDRS was a two-year ICANN pilot, from 28 November 2023 to 30 November 2025. According to ICANN's review of 3 March 2026, it received over 3,700 disclosure requests covering more than 40,400 domain names. Intellectual property accounted for 32 % of requests and law enforcement for 16 %. Requests were 26 % approved, 55 % denied, and 19 % partially approved or already public.
The RDRS covered requests passed to participating registrars. Our report also covers complaints, court orders and suspensions. Those have no ICANN-wide equivalent.
RDRS pilot figures and our first report
| Measure | ICANN RDRS pilot (Nov 2023 – Nov 2025) | PanamaRegistrar |
|---|---|---|
| Disclosure requests | Over 3,700 | First figures January 2027 |
| Share from intellectual property requesters | 32 % | First figures January 2027 |
| Share from law enforcement | 16 % | First figures January 2027 |
| Approved | 26 % | First figures January 2027 |
| Partially approved or already public | 19 % | First figures January 2027 |
| Denied | 55 % | First figures January 2027 |
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Why include Spamhaus and ICANN Domain Metrica figures?
Because they come from public reputation data that we do not control. ICANN and Spamhaus publish them per accredited registrar; ours is a share of our registrar partner's figures, so we compute the same ratio on our own domains, from the same lists.
ICANN opened Domain Metrica to all users on 18 February 2025. It shows how abuse concentrates by registrar and by registry, using reputation block lists for phishing, malware and botnet command-and-control. Spam was left out at launch. Spamhaus publishes registrar rankings by the ratio of abused domains, not by volume.
A high ratio harms every customer of a registrar: email from its domains is filtered more often. Publishing the figure each quarter shows whether the strict exceptions work. For context, ICANN reported 192 investigations and more than 2,700 suspended domains in the first six months of the 2024 DNS abuse rules.
What will never appear in the report?
No domain names, no customer emails, no account numbers and no names of complainants or authorities below country level.
The report counts how our procedure was used; it does not publish the cases. A complainant or a holder who wants the outcome of a specific case receives it directly, by email. The procedure itself is described on how we handle complaints, court orders and data disclosure. Domain prices, which the report does not cover, are on the pricing page.
Transparency report: questions
When is the first PanamaRegistrar transparency report published?
January 2027. It covers launch to 31 December 2026, and later reports follow every quarter. Until then this page shows the empty template, so that the categories and counting rules are public before any figure exists. No number appears anywhere on this site before that date.
Will refused requests be counted?
Yes. Every category has a refused column, and foreign requests without Panamanian legal process have a category of their own. Copyright, defamation and political complaints that did not lead to action are counted as refused. The count shows how often the rule of no takedown on a complaint alone was applied.
Are Ministerio Público orders counted as court orders?
No, they are counted separately. A Ministerio Público preservation or production order under arts. 338-A or 338-C of the Code of Criminal Procedure binds us under Panamanian law. It is not a court decision, so it has its own row. Foreign judgments recognised by exequatur also have their own row.
Why compare with ICANN's RDRS?
Because it is the largest public dataset on registration data requests. The RDRS pilot logged over 3,700 requests, 26 % approved and 55 % denied, according to ICANN. Using the same outcome categories lets readers compare our approval rate with the industry pilot once our figures exist.
Can I check the figures?
The reputation measures can be checked by anyone: ICANN Domain Metrica is open to all users, and Spamhaus publishes registrar rankings by ratio. The counts come from our written record, in which every entry has a reference number. A complainant can check that their own case appears in the right category.
Does the report show urgent requests?
Yes, in category 16: requests about an imminent threat to life, serious bodily injury or child abuse material. They are handled first; the data we hold still leaves us only on a Panamanian court or prosecutor's order.
Sources (6)
- ICANN's RDRS two-year pilot: what we learned and where we go next — ICANN (3 March 2026)
- ICANN Domain Metrica release update: access now open to all users — ICANN (18 February 2025)
- More domain stats: the 10 most abused registrars — Spamhaus (checked 2026-10-19)
- ICANN's DNS abuse mitigation program: key updates from 2024 — ICANN (10 December 2024)
- Ley 478 de 4 de agosto de 2025 (Code of Criminal Procedure arts. 338-A, 338-C) — Gaceta Oficial No. 30337 (5 August 2025)
- Ley 61 de 7 de octubre de 2015, Código de Derecho Internacional Privado (arts. 155–157) — Asamblea Nacional de Panamá (Legispan) (checked 2026-10-19)