Nominet outsources cybersquatting disputes to WIPO
The World Intellectual Property Organisation has tightened its stranglehold on domain name disputes worldwide, taking over administration of .uk’s Dispute Resolution Service.
Nominet said today that WIPO will start to manage DRS, which is similar to UDRP and has been around almost as long, from July 7. It said that the policy, fees, and panelists are not changing.
WIPO already handles cybersquatting complaints for scores of ccTLDs — some of which use standard UDRP, some of which have their own tweaked versions — as well as being the leading provider of gTLD dispute resolution.
Nominet said the move to outsource came as part of its .UK Registry Standardisation program, which is seeing it retire several non-core services.
Any DRS cases filed with Nominet before the July 7 cut-off will be processed to completion in the Nominet system.
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