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[FYI] WIPO ADDRESSES FIRST COUNTRY CODE CYBER DISPUTE
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Press Release PR/2000/211
Geneva, March 24, 2000
WIPO ADDRESSES FIRST COUNTRY CODE CYBER DISPUTE
The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) Arbitration and
Mediation Center received its first domain name dispute involving a
country-code top-level domain (ccTLD) this month. The case concerns
the domain name "expedia.nu" - "NU" being the country code for the
Pacific Ocean island nation of Niue. This is the first case received
by the Center outside the system for resolving generic top-level
domain name disputes (gTLD, such as .com, .net, .org). The Center has
so far received just over 200 gTLD related-cases from parties in some
40 countries.
The .NU top-level domain is administered by .NU Domain Ltd. under
agreement with the IANA (Internet Assigned Numbers Authority)
designated delegatee, the Internet Users Society- Niue (IUS-N) and
has about 66,000 domain name registrations, a high number for a small
territory as compared to the number of registrations in many other
country-code top level domains. Desirous of discouraging trademark
infringements, .NU Domain Ltd. recently decided to adopt the Uniform
Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy of the Internet Corporation for
Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) for all .NU registrations and
retained the WIPO Arbitration and Mediation Center as one of its
dispute resolution service providers.
Mr. Francis Gurry, WIPO Assistant Director General and Director of
the Arbitration and Mediation Center, welcomed the decision by .NU
Domain Ltd. and IUS-N to adopt the Uniform Dispute Resolution Policy.
"As country-code administrators, they have recognized the value and
relevance of the Policy for reducing intellectual property
infringements in the country code-top level domains. We hope that
others will follow," Mr. Gurry said.
The Uniform Dispute Resolution Policy, formulated on the basis of
WIPO recommendations, was originally designed for disputes arising in
the generic top-level domains, such as .COM, .NET, .ORG. However, as
the types of disputes arising within ccTLDS often are similar to
those occurring within the gTLDs, the policy is also relevant to
country-code top-level domains, particularly where such domains are
"open". This means that the domain names can be registered by any
person living in any country of the world. The WIPO Arbitration and
Mediation Center has been administering cases in the generic top-
level domains on the basis of the Uniform Dispute Resolution Policy
since December 1999. At present, countries differ in the way they
administer alleged cybersquatting disputes. However, any national
domain names registrar can opt to apply the Uniform Policy.
For additional information, please contact the Media Relations &
Public Affairs Section at WIPO:
Tel.: +41 22-338 81 61 or +41 22-338 95 47
Fax: +41 22-338 88 10
Email: publicinf@wipo.int
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