How Can It Take Over 5 Months For A UDRP Decision?

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Its over 5 months now since a UDRP was filed on the two letter domain name, YU.com.

The complaint which was filed on December 11, 2012 with the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO).

We wrote about the UDRP when it was filed back in December noting that it seemed like an attempted Reverse Domain Name Hijacking (RDNH) situation.

The domain name is still going to a Hit Farm page and the whois record still hasn’t been updated since December 12th when it was locked by the registrar in response to the UDRP.

So its been over 5 months and of the UDRP cases I’m tracking the next oldest one was filed in February 2013.

Its an awfully long time for a decision especially considering its a very valuable two letter domain and its locked and can not be transferred or sold.

Maybe one of our lawyer readers can chime in here on what seems to be one of the longest pending UDRP cases that I can recall.

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. Zak Muscovitch says

    Indeed, this is the longest UDRP case that I am aware of… Although delays are relatively commonplace, it is definitely unusual. WIPO and NAF are usually very expeditious in administering proceedings, however I recently did wait well over a month for the chair of a panel to be appointed.

    Just doing some theoretical UDRP math out-loud here, to see what a ‘worst case’ scenario time-wise could add up to:

    Review of complaint for administrative compliance, a few amendments required, and then Christmas and new years hit in late December, early January.
    Total: 6 weeks

    Extension of time for holidays and to respond, plus the normal 20 days.
    Total: Another 6 weeks

    Complainant files a supplementary, and the respondent files a supplementary (although this should not really affect the timing of the case normally unless it is via a Panel order, so lets assume that happened…).
    Total: Another 4 weeks.

    Nominating and selecting panelists: 2 weeks

    Rendering decision and taking a long time for some reason and a delay in publishing it perhaps: 6 weeks.

    So that is a theoretical total of 24 weeks or 6 months. 🙂 Lets check back mid-June… 😉

  4. Zak Muscovitch says

    Many thanks, Michael. I don’t think anyone really can appreciate the dedication and work someone like you puts into blogging, until they have tried it for a week! Its only been 5 days and I am getting the picture real fast! LOL.