ESSENTIAL TEXTS

The Reference Desk and the shelves listed under Resources are the foundation of the Library. Listed below are the essential texts that anchor domain name jurisprudence. This collection of materials provides the legal and procedural framework for all subsequent resources. 

     Both the Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy and the Anticybersquatting Consumer Protection Act became effective in 1999. Except for some minor procedural additions in the UDRP, neither protective model has been amended.

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ANTICYBERSQUATTING CONSUMER PROTECTION ACT

The Lanham Act 15 U.S. Code S 1125(a), (c) and (d) (The ACPA is 1125(d). It is subdivided into two parts: part 1 is in personam jurisdiction and part 2 is in rem jurisdiction).

Senate Report on the ACPA

House of Representatives Report on the ACPA​ 

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World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO)​

The Final Report of the WIPO Internet Domain Name Process, subtitled "The Management of Internet Names and Addresses: Intellectual Property Issues" (April 30, 1999)​

Report of the Second WIPO Internet Domain Name Process: Recognition of Rights and the Use of Names in the Internet Domain Name System, September 3, 2001.​

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The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) translated WIPO's recommendations into a statute like online arbitral policy which it implemented in October 1999 as the UNIFORM DOMAIN NAME DISPUTE RESOLUTION POLICY ​

ICANN Second Staff Report (October 24, 1999) (Implementation document)

ICANN DOCUMENTS​​

The Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy

The Rules of the Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy

ICANN Registrar Accreditation Agreement

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WIPO OVERVIEWS

(2026) WIPO [deleted Jurisprudential] Overview, 3.1

Track changes Overview 3.1.

(2017) WIPO Jurisprudential Overview, Third Edition

(2011) WIPO Overview, Second Edition

(2005) WIPO Overview, First Edition​

WIPO Decisions by Year

All gTLDs (Ranking): All Years (dot com disputes approximately 75% of the whole.

 

    There have been no substantive amendments to the UDRP, but ICANN is likely in the near future to initiate a review of the Policy, albeit without any date certain of its commencement. However, in advance of any commencement, whenever it may be scheduled, the Internet Commerce Association and WIPO engaged in a deliberative dialog based on a set of proposals jointly put forward by Steve Levy, Georges Nahitchevansky, Zak Muscovitch, and Nat Cohen. This effort resulted in a joint statement of the ICA and WIPO in a Final Report issued on December 2, 2025. 

     The sequence of documents is: Proposals of The UDRP Exploratory Group (version 2). Version 2 was subsequently discussed with WIPO (Brian Beckham) that resulting in a joint proposal that was submitted to ICANN. The joint proposal resulted in an EXECUTIVE SUMMARY TABLE OF RECOMMENDATIONS: FINAL REPORT OF THE WIPO-ICA UDRP REVIEW PROJECT TEAM (December 2, 2025).
 

UDRP ARBITRATION PROVIDERS
ADNRC-Asian Domain Name Dispute Resolution Centre

CIIDRC (Canadian International Internet Dispute Resolution Centre)

Czech Arbitration Court

Forum: Supplemental Rules, Forum

WIPO Supplemental Rules, World Intellectual Property Organization

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Each Providers has its own List of Panelists and some panelists are on others' lists. You can also view Panelists' decisions at <udrp.tools>.

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