Dispute settlement in all generic and several national top level domains is regulated by Uniform domain name dispute resolution policy - UDRP.

UDRP has been developed by WIPO based on the request from US government.

To learn more on UDRP history, please follow this link

To study the contents of UDRP please follow this link

Dispute settlement under UDRP was immediate success, this link shows the number of UDRP cases solved by WIPO arbitration and mediation centre: https://www.wipo.int/amc/en/domains/statistics/cases.jspore statistics here: https://www.wipo.int/amc/en/domains/statistics/ 

" Complaints under the Uniform Dispute Resolution Policy may be submitted to any approved dispute-resolution service provider listed below.

Each provider follows the Rules for Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy as well as its own supplemental rules.

To go to the web site of a provider, click on its name below:

• Asian Domain Name Dispute Resolution Centre [ADNDRC] (approved effective 28 February 2002). 
• The National Arbitration Forum [NAF] (approved effective 23 December 1999). Click here to see its supplemental rules.
• World Intellectual Property Organization [WIPO] (approved effective 1 December 1999). Click here to see its supplemental rules.
• The Czech Arbitration Court [CAC] (approved effective 23 January 2008). Click here to see its supplemental rules.
• Arab Center for Domain Name Dispute Resolution (ACDR). Click here to see its supplemental rules.

The above approved providers are in effect until further notice at this web page."*

*Source ICANN - http://www.icann.org/en/dndr/udrp/approved-providers.htm , cited on 25.11.2009

This course will focus mainly on UDRP cases led at WIPO. Please read carefully this brochure to get necessary information on UDRP procedures at WIPO arbitration

and mediation centre.

All decisions ruled by WIPO are listed here:

http://www.wipo.int/amc/en/domains/decisions/index.html

The index od UDRP decisions where you can search by categories can be found on this link

http://www.wipo.int/amc/en/domains/search/legalindex.jsp

Important link to the decisions of the WIPO domain name dispute resolution concerning also three main aspects of domain name disputes: 

WIPO Overview 2.0

WIPO Overview 3.0