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Domain Name Disputes Decline as Internet Matures

By Tamara Loomis
October 02, 2003

The wild wild Web is getting tamed. Cyber-squatters no longer freely roam its highways looking for easy marks. And trademark owners who once went after anyone who crossed their path are now choosing their battles much more carefully.

Signs of this shift in the Internet landscape are plentiful. But perhaps most telling is the sharp decline in the number of proceedings being filed under the Uniform Domain Name Resolution Policy (UDRP), the principle means for dealing with trademark disputes over top-level domain names, such as those ending in .com, .net, .org or .biz.

The number of UDRP proceedings has dropped by almost half in the last two years, and by nearly 30% in just the last year. Last month's 136 filings represents a two-year low. And this is the case even though domain name registrations during the period have remained at a steady 29 million.

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