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WIPO: UDRP 2012: Complainants Win 91%; Parties Settle 20% of Cases

March 29, 2013 by Michael Berkens

Here are UDRP stats of cases filed under WIPO in 2012:

Trademark holders filed a record 2,884 cybersquatting cases covering 5,084 Internet domain names with the WIPO Center under procedures based on the Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP). This represents an increase of 4.5% over the record established in 2011.

Since the UDRP’s launch in December 1999, the WIPO Center has received over 25,500 UDRP based cases, covering some 47,000 domain names in both generic and country code Top Level Domains (gTLDs, ccTLDs).

The top three areas of complainant activity in 2012 were retail, fashion and banking and finance.

Of the gTLD cases filed with WIPO in 2012, three quarters (74.8%) concerned registrations in the .com domain, ccTLDs accounted for almost 12% of filings,

The increased filings related to fashion and luxury brands reflect in part a growth in the number of cases filed by brand owners alleging counterfeiting via the web pages offered under the disputed domain name.

Parties settled around one out of five WIPO cases before reaching panel decision. Applying UDRP jurisprudence, WIPO panels in 2012 found evidence of cybersquatting in 91% of all decided cases.

Filed Under: UDRP

About Michael Berkens

Michael Berkens, Esq. is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of TheDomains.com. Michael is also the co-founder of Worldwide Media Inc. which sold around 70K domain to Godaddy.com in December 2015 and now owns around 8K domain names . Michael was also one of the 5 Judges selected for the the Verisign 30th Anniversary .Com contest.

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Comments

  1. Jeff Schneider says

    March 29, 2013 at 10:58 am

    Hello MHB,

    The whole UDRP process is heavily biased towards legal theft. Why ICANN does not instate more protections for lease holders is a sore point of contention with me and many others. This attitude of go ahead and lease it and TRUST US you have minimal protections is F–KED UP.

    Gratefully, Jeff Schneider (Contact Group) (Metal Tiger)


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