Trademark owners filed a record 3,447 cases under the Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP) with WIPO’s Arbitration and Mediation Center in 2018 as businesses reacted to the proliferation of websites used for counterfeit sales, fraud, phishing, and other forms of online trademark abuse. (Annex 1 ) WIPO Director General Francis Gurry said: “Domain names involving fraud and …
The International Trademark Association (INTA) has conducted a targeted study into new gtld registrations. The results from the survey titled: INTA new gtld cost impact survey [PDF] gives some quite shocking revelations on the new domains. The International Trademark Association (INTA) is a global organization of 6,600 trademark owners and professionals from over 190 countries. …
The Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP) is certainly the most frequently used tool to combat cybersquatting — but, it is not always an option. Many countries have adopted their own domain name dispute policies — or none at all — in lieu of the UDRP. Since the launch of the WIPO ccTLD Program …
The start of the new year is appropriate for a performance review, so David Taylor, partner at law firm Hogan Lovells, assesses the popularity of the new gTLD sunrise periods and the progress of the UDRP and URS. January 2015 saw the total number of domain name registrations across nearly 500 new generic top-level domains …
The UDRP complaint against MountainRovers.com has the dubious distinction of being the 150th case of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking identified so far. Five thoughts on this milestone- 1. The problem of RDNH is getting worse. The UDRP is used more frequently than ever to attempt to steal domain names from their rightful owners. The early …
The Ham Brothers, Vertical Axis just lost a UDRP on the typo pheonixcontact.com to Phoenix Contact GmbH & Co. KG of German. As a UDRP the case is a slam dunk for the International trademark holder. However the case serves as a cautionary tale for those domain holders that believe that all they have to …