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And the NCUC was deeply involved in creating the UDRP. Tanks to Kathy
and others.<br>
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Norbert<br>
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<h2> Press Release 463</h2>
<h3>Geneva, October 16, 2006</h3>
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<h2>WIPO HANDLES ITS 25,000<sup>TH</sup> DOMAIN NAME CASE</h2>
<p>In just seven years of operation, the caseload of the
Arbitration and Mediation Center of the World Intellectual Property
Organization (WIPO) topped the 25,000 mark with a case that has just
been decided. Since it launched its domain name dispute resolution
services, the WIPO Center has resolved disputes under the Uniform
Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP) and various other
policies. The 25,000<sup>th</sup> case related to a cybersquatting
dispute handled under the UDRP in which the panelist ordered the
transfer of the domain name <redlionhotels.com> to the trademark
owner, the Red Lion Hotels chain.</p>
<p>In the period since the launch of its dispute resolution
services under the UDRP in December 1999 through August 2006, 9,567
UDRP or UDRP-based cases (generic top level domains, gTLDs and country
code top-level domains, ccTLDs) have been filed with the WIPO Center,
covering 17,912 separate domain names involving parties from 136
countries.</p>
<p>These figures rise to 25,085 cases (please see Annex 1) when
the caseload of the various ad hoc "sunrise" dispute resolution
policies, designed to avoid the flood of cybersquatting cases generated
by the initial introduction of domain names, namely .info Sunrise, .biz
STOP, .name ERDRP and .mobi Sunrise cases, are taken into account. As
these policies are applicable for a limited time, these cases are
received on a non-recurring, one-off basis. With the exception of the
cases in the .mobi domain, which has commenced only recently, all WIPO
sunrise cases have been resolved. These so-called sunrise policies
established procedures that offered trademark owners additional means
to preempt and counter abusive and bad-faith registration of their
trademarks as domain names within a specified start-up phase.</p>
<p>Most of the 9,567 UDRP and UDRP-based disputes concern
international domains, with .com representing some 79% of names
involved, followed by .net (11%), .org (6%), .info (2%), and .biz,
.travel, .aero and .edu (jointly 2%).</p>
<p>Of the total of 9,567 UDRP and UDRP-based cases the Center has
received through August 2006, 8,936 (97%) have been resolved. In the
7,011 decisions they have rendered, WIPO panels have found for the
complainant in 5,842 (84%) cases and 1,112 (16%) were denied. The
remainder of the resolved cases were settled by the parties.</p>
<p>The 9,567 UDRP and UDRP-based cases included 418 cases
involving domain names registered in ccTLDs. Three hundred and eighty
eight of these have now been resolved, through 240 decisions in favor
of the complainant, 43 decisions in favor of the respondent and 105
settlements between the parties, with 30 cases still pending. The
Center now provides services for disputes in 47 ccTLDs (full list
available at <a href="http://www.wipo.int/amc/en/domains/cctld/"><font
color="#800080">http://www.wipo.int/amc/en/domains/cctld/</font></a>)
such as .au (Australia), .ch (Switzerland), .co (Colombia), .fr
(France), .mx (Mexico), and .tv (Tuvalu). The latest domain to join
this list has been .es (Spain) in early 2006.</p>
<p>The Center also offers dispute resolution services for
registrations in non-Roman ("non-ASCII") scripts such as Arabic,
Chinese, Cyrillic or Korean ("internationalized" domain names) and has
so far received 60 complaints in relation to such names, of which six
are pending. The number such cases is expected to increase in future.
The Center has managed proceedings in 12 languages, namely, Chinese,
Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian,
Portuguese, Russian and Spanish.</p>
<p>For background information on the UDRP and related
information, please see <a
href="http://www.wipo.int/edocs/prdocs/en/2006/wipo_pr_2006_435.html"><font
color="#800080">http://www.wipo.int/edocs/prdocs/en/2006/wipo_pr_2006_435.html</font></a>.</p>
<p>For further information about all the activities of the
Center, please visit the Center’s web site at <a
href="http://www.wipo.int/amc/"><font color="#800080">http://www.wipo.int/amc/</font></a>
or contact the Media Relations and Public Affairs Section at WIPO:</p>
<ul>
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<p style="line-height: 150%;">Tel: (+41 22) 338 81 61 or (+41
22) 338 95 47;</p>
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<p style="line-height: 150%;">E-mail: <a
href="mailto:publicinf@wipo.int"><font color="#0000ff">publicinf@wipo.int</font></a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p style="line-height: 150%;">Fax: (+41 22) 338 82 80.</p>
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<p>Annex 1
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<td valign="top" width="14%"><b><font size="3"> </font></b>
<p align="center"><b><font size="3">UDRP</font></b></p>
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<td valign="top" width="14%"><b><font size="3"> </font></b>
<p align="center"><b><font size="3">.info</font></b></p>
</td>
<td valign="top" width="14%"><b><font size="3"> </font></b>
<p align="center"><b><font size="3">.biz STOP</font></b></p>
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<td valign="top" width="14%"><b><font size="3"> </font></b>
<p align="center"><b><font size="3">.name EDRP</font></b></p>
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<td valign="top" width="14%"><b><font size="3"> </font></b>
<p align="center"><b><font size="3">.mobi</font></b></p>
<b><font size="3"> </font></b>
<p align="center"><b><font size="3">Sunrise</font></b></p>
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<p align="center"><b><font size="3">Total</font></b></p>
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<p>1999</p>
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<p align="right">1</p>
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<td valign="top" width="14%">
<p align="right">-</p>
</td>
<td valign="top" width="14%">
<p align="right">-</p>
</td>
<td valign="top" width="14%">
<p align="right">-</p>
</td>
<td valign="top" width="14%"> </td>
<td valign="top" width="14%">
<p align="right">1</p>
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<p>2000</p>
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<td valign="top" width="14%">
<p align="right">1,857</p>
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<td valign="top" width="14%">
<p align="right">-</p>
</td>
<td valign="top" width="14%">
<p align="right">-</p>
</td>
<td valign="top" width="14%">
<p align="right">-</p>
</td>
<td valign="top" width="14%"> </td>
<td valign="top" width="14%">
<p align="right">1,857</p>
</td>
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<td valign="top" width="18%">
<p>2001</p>
</td>
<td valign="top" width="14%">
<p align="right">1,557</p>
</td>
<td valign="top" width="14%">
<p align="right">1,579</p>
</td>
<td valign="top" width="14%">
<p align="right">53</p>
</td>
<td valign="top" width="14%">
<p align="right">-</p>
</td>
<td valign="top" width="14%"> </td>
<td valign="top" width="14%">
<p align="right">3,189</p>
</td>
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<td valign="top" width="18%">
<p>2002</p>
</td>
<td valign="top" width="14%">
<p align="right">1,207</p>
</td>
<td valign="top" width="14%">
<p align="right">13,593</p>
</td>
<td valign="top" width="14%">
<p align="right">285</p>
</td>
<td valign="top" width="14%">
<p align="right">1</p>
</td>
<td valign="top" width="14%"> </td>
<td valign="top" width="14%">
<p align="right">15,086</p>
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<p>2003</p>
</td>
<td valign="top" width="14%">
<p align="right">1,100</p>
</td>
<td valign="top" width="14%">
<p align="right">-</p>
</td>
<td valign="top" width="14%">
<p align="right">-</p>
</td>
<td valign="top" width="14%">
<p align="right">-</p>
</td>
<td valign="top" width="14%"> </td>
<td valign="top" width="14%">
<p align="right">1,100</p>
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<td valign="top" width="18%">
<p>2004</p>
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<td valign="top" width="14%">
<p align="right">1,176</p>
</td>
<td valign="top" width="14%">
<p align="right">-</p>
</td>
<td valign="top" width="14%">
<p align="right">-</p>
</td>
<td valign="top" width="14%">
<p align="right">3</p>
</td>
<td valign="top" width="14%"> </td>
<td valign="top" width="14%">
<p align="right">1,179</p>
</td>
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<td valign="top" width="18%">
<p>2005</p>
</td>
<td valign="top" width="14%">
<p align="right">1,456</p>
</td>
<td valign="top" width="14%">
<p align="right">-</p>
</td>
<td valign="top" width="14%">
<p align="right">-</p>
</td>
<td valign="top" width="14%">
<p align="right">1</p>
</td>
<td valign="top" width="14%"> </td>
<td valign="top" width="14%">
<p align="right">1,457</p>
</td>
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<td valign="top" width="18%">
<p>Jan-August 2006</p>
</td>
<td valign="top" width="14%">
<p align="right">1,213</p>
</td>
<td valign="top" width="14%">
<p align="right">-</p>
</td>
<td valign="top" width="14%">
<p align="right">-</p>
</td>
<td valign="top" width="14%">
<p align="right">-</p>
</td>
<td valign="top" width="14%">
<p align="right">3</p>
</td>
<td valign="top" width="14%">
<p align="right">1,216</p>
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<td valign="top" width="18%"><b> </b>
<p><b>Total</b></p>
</td>
<td valign="top" width="14%"><b> </b>
<p align="right"><b>9,567</b></p>
</td>
<td valign="top" width="14%"><b> </b>
<p align="right"><b>15,172</b></p>
</td>
<td valign="top" width="14%"><b> </b>
<p align="right"><b>338</b></p>
</td>
<td valign="top" width="14%"><b> </b>
<p align="right"><b>5</b></p>
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<td valign="top" width="14%"><b> </b>
<p align="right"><b>3</b></p>
</td>
<td valign="top" width="14%"><b> </b>
<p align="right"><b>25,085</b></p>
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