By Rajiv Arya , [email protected]
Published 1/1/00
For Your Attention
Mandatory Dispute Resolution for Domain Name Cybersquatters
In accordance with recent controversial recommendations from the World Intellectual Property Organization, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers ("ICANN") has adopted a new dispute resolution policy for handling certain types of trade-mark disputes over Internet domain names. As the organization charged by the U.S. government with responsibility for the Internet’s core technical functions, ICANN will require the new policy to be implemented by all new ICANN-accredited Registrars for the ".com", ".net", and ".org" generic top-level domains, including Network Solutions, the most prominent ICANN-accredited Registrar. The new policy, entitled the "Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy", and its accompanying Rules, were specifically adopted in order to stifle the activities of "cybersquatters", who buy up domain names identical
