Groups want moratorium on new UDRP providers until ICANN gets handle on them.
Both the ICANN Business Constituency and the Internet Commerce Association have asked ICANN to reject any applications from new UDRP providers until “ICANN implements a standard mechanism for establishing uniform rules and procedures and flexible means of delineating and enforcing arbitration provider responsibilities.”
The comments are in response to an application by Arab Center for Domain Name Dispute Resolution (ACDR) to become a UDRP provider for domain name disputes.
Internet Commerce Association Counsel Philip Corwin helped draft and work with the Business Constituency for its comments. ICANN has twice added the issue of control over UDRP providers to its board agenda. Nothing serious has come of it yet.
Additionally, ICA submitted its own comments specific to deficiencies in ACDR’s application.
The Intellectual Property Constituency also noted some deficiencies in ACDR’s application, although the majority of it is requests for ACDR to reduce some of its fees borne by complainants.
Landon White says
ENGLISH SHOULD NOT BE A SECOND LANGUAGE:
Both the ICANN Business Constituency and the Internet Commerce Association
are 100% correct.
The UDRP should NOT be an entrepreneurial magnet opportunity to be farmed out,
it has already shown signs of being
received as incompetent, irrelevant, unfair
and without credence, it even borders on being a daily disgrace to the legal profession with inconsistent,contradictory and ridiculous cut N paste Decisions.
I do believe a major part of the problem for the non-consistent and none common sense without reference to procedural / legal reference UDRP Judgement Decisions, are made by personnel and panelists for which…
“English is a Second Language”
The UDRP MUST be CENTRALIZED to be recognized {AS THE OFFICIAL}
“ARBITRATOR DOMAIN BOARD”
(without satellite branch offices
scattered like a McDonalds chain)