In a press release today the The National Arbitration Forum (NAF), “announced that a total of 2,082 cases were filed in its domain name dispute resolution program in 2011, up 18% from 2009 (1,759 cases) and down 4% from 2010 (2,177 cases). ”
“Since the NAF first case in 1999, nearly 18,000 cases have been filed as of the end of 2011.”
“”The following data pertains to the National Arbitration Forum domain name dispute resolution program in 2011 (January 1 to December 31, 2011):
“More than 2,000 cases filed (96.2 percent) involved generic top-level domain (gTLD) names including .com and .org under the UDRP.”
“Approximately 70 cases involved a .us top-level domain under the United States Dispute Resolution Policy (usDRP).”
“Ten cases were administered under the NAF’s new Rapid Evaluation Service (RES) for .xxx domain names.”
“Panelists heard and decided 1,734 of the 2,082 cases filed”
“UDRP cases, on average, concluded 35 days from commencement; some cases concluded in fewer than 20 days.”
The only reasonable reason why the NAF 1st tries to compare to 2011 numbers to 2009 is because they want to led the story with an increase rather than a decrease which of course it is year to year 2010 to 2011.
“…a total of 2,082 cases were filed in its domain name dispute resolution program in 2011, up 18 percent from 2009 (1,759 cases) and down four percent from 2010 (2,177 cases).”
This might just be me, but why state that 2011 cases are up compared to 2009 and then go on to state the amount is down compared to 2010 (prior year). Wouldn’t it just have been easier to say that the amount of cases had dropped by 4% compared to the previous year?
Scott
it would have been but the NAF is always trying to make it look more of a problem then it is, so its just to try to boost up their numbers
Thanks Mike. That’s what I thought. Self serving PR it seems.
So its like unemployment numbers, the economy, who will be the next president, the fed or what yahoo laying off 2,000 today really means ??? – only one answer rapid self gratification