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New Development
The Draft Communiqué ("Draft
Communiqué") Amending the Communiqué on
Dispute Resolution Mechanism concerning Internet Domain Names
("Communiqué") was published
through decision No. 2021/İK-BTD/220 of the Information
Technologies and Communication Authority (ITCA) on 10 August 2021.
The Draft Communiqué will be open to public consultation on
ITCA's website for 15 days. The Draft Communiqué is
available
here (in Turkish).
What's New?
The Draft Communiqué foresees certain novelties of the
activities of service providers for dispute resolution
(tr. UÇHS). Accordingly, a UÇHS that meets
the necessary requirements will be granted an activity certificate.
Additionally, in order to be eligible as an arbitrator of a
UÇHS, instead of the requirement to have graduated from
certain specific faculties or higher education institutions or
their equivalents abroad, it is foreseen that the criterion