The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) released its 2015 report on domain name disputes.
Spanning the period from January 1 and September 30th, 2015, the report shares some interesting metrics about domain disputes, as compared to 2014:
- 2,015 UDRP cases were filed in 2015, as compared to 1,940 in 2014; an increase of 3.9%.
Regarding the effect of more available gTLD to the number of UDRP cases filed:
“With the growing number of registrations of newly introduced gTLDs, more UDRP cases have been triggered. Nearly 800 of the new gTLDs introduced by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) are operational, and cases involving these domains represent 14 percent of WIPO’s 2015 caseload as of 30 September 2015.”
You can download the full report from the WIPO here in PDF format.
So without new gTLDs it goes down.
Peter – How did you come to this conclusion?
It shows that gTLD registrations are often infringing on existing trademarks. The totals are comparatively the same.
2014: 1,940×0.95=1,843.0
2015: 2,015×0.86=1,732.9
Peter – Huge difference. I don’t see panelists starving any time soon. 😉
Think about it: there are 271 million domains, what an endless potential for UDRP challenges.
It’s -5.974%, which is a good news.