WIPO reports increased cybersquatting in 2004
The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) recently reported a 6.6-percent increase in cybersquatting cases reported in 124 countries, with a total of 1,179 cases reported in 2004.
The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) recently reported a 6.6-percent increase in cybersquatting cases reported in 124 countries, with a total of 1,179 cases reported in 2004.
WIPO, the worldwide enforcement body for the “Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution” (UDRP) mechanism, said the number of UDRP-related cases filed per day last year grew by an average of 3.4 percent.
The WIPO report also said that most domain-name cybersquatting disputes concerned international domains, although they handled 70 cases involving country code top-level domains (ccTLD) – a 37-percent increase from 2003.
The organization said it handled cybersquatting cases involving .ph domain names such as hotmail.com.ph, philips.ph, yahoo.ph, and walmart.ph. It did not say how these disputes were resolved.
WIPO’s Arbitration and Mediation Center has handled over 7,000 disputes covering over 12,500 domain names since the UDRP went into effect in December 1999, the organization said.
Proposed by WIPO, the UDRP has become an accepted international standard for resolving domain name disputes, It is specifically designed to discourage and resolve cybersquatting or the abusive registration of trademarks as domain names in the hopes of forcing trademark owners to buy them for a premium.
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