UDRP Cases Decline 9.5% In 2009

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According to WIPO, the number of cases filed under the Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP) in 2009 decreased by 9.5% compared to the previous year.

In 2009, 2,107 cases were brought to the WIPO UDRP, compared to 2,329 cases in 2008.

Those complaints concerned 4,688 domain names, compared to 3,958 in 2008, according to a WIPO press release, meaning many cases included mulitple domains.

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.

Comments

  2. Tim Davids says

    the number probably runs paralel with how many companies went out of business or don’t have the cash to do things like going after domain names

  3. MHB says

    Tim

    This is what the good folks at WIPO are saying. The recession hit the global brands so hard they have no money to go after domains, except for Verizon which appearently has plenty.

    Personally I think the are less instances of domain abuse

  4. George Kirikos says

    There was that one case (D2009-1661) involving Intercontinental hotel domains which had 1542 domain names, which skewed the stats. Most of those domain names were garbage (multiple hyphens).

  5. Snoopy says

    Would agree that it is likely a reccessionary thing, I think WIPO use also declined during the .com bust.

  6. Antony Van Couvering says

    @JohnBerryhill – didn’t you see the WIPO “headline”? This year there are more individual domain names (as opposed to group cases) than there were last year. So although — the WIPO spin goes — there were fewer cases, it’s actually a worrisome trend, which (of course) new gTLDs will exacerbate to such an extent that the sky will fall. See my comment on notice on Circle ID.