NEWS Arabic UDRP provider turns on the lights
Te Arab Center for Dispute Resolution (ACDR) is up and running, becoming the fiſth provider of Uniform Domain-Name Dispute-Resolution Policy (UDRP) services.
ICANN approved the centre to handle
cybersquatting disputes in May last year, three years aſter it first applied. Te ACDR later revised its proposal in light of public comments.
Te ACDR, a joint venture between two Arabic IP institutes, had been expected to go live on January 1 this year.
Trademark owners must pay $1,500 to complain about one or two domains; three to five domains will cost $1,700. Tere are further charges for more names.
Te World Intellectual Property Organization, the leading UDRP provider, charges $1,500 for a dispute over one to five domains. Te remaining providers are the National Arbitration Forum, based in the US, the Asian Domain Name Dispute Resolution Centre and the Czech Arbitration Court Arbitration Center for Internet Disputes.
Aſter approving the ACDR last year, ICANN’s board said that having the first UDRP operator in the Middle East enhances ICANN’s “accountability to the Internet community as a whole” and provides choice for UDRP complainants.
With ACDR going live, there is expected to be some price competition, said Stuart Fuller, director of commercial operations at brand protection company NetNames.
“But because, essentially, this is a legal service, it is the quality that is more important and will in the long term decide the success of any operator,” he said. “If the new ACDR handles cases in a swiſt and complete manner then I can see it becoming a viable ‘rival’ to the existing providers.”
Te new generic top-level domain (gTLD) programme is likely to increase online infringement across the world, Fuller continued,
University bags first English-language .brand
ICANN has delegated the first English-language .brand gTLD to Melbourne-based Monash University.
Registry operator ARI Registry Services, which helped to delegate .monash, said that the gTLD will become a “core component of the university’s digital strategy”.
Although ARI states that .monash is the world’s first .brand gTLD, some reports have indicated that Chinese Bank CITIC was delegated its . (‘Citic’) domain at the same time as Monash.
Monash, founded in 1958, said it received the domain name aſter a “lengthy application process and detailed review of the university’s technical, operational and financial capabilities”.
Ian Tebbett, Monash University’s vice president of information and chief information officer, said that the gTLD reflects Monash’s commitment to embracing new technology and expansion in overseas education and research centres.
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“Te .monash gTLD will allow the university to manage all of its domain names under the global identity of Monash,” he said.
“Greater control over our content and domains will strengthen our online presence and better represent Monash as a global institution … Tis is an innovation that will ultimately benefit users by allowing us to develop a new customer- focused university web presence,” he added.
Monash expects two websites under the .monash domain name to go live “in the near future”. It
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added that it would gradually phase .monash into its digital communications, but will continue to use
monash.edu.
ARI’s chief executive Adrian Kinderis noted that of eight .brand applications from the education sector, six were made by Australian universities.
He continued: “We’ll soon see the likes of .bond, .latrobe and .rmit join .monash when they delegate in the coming months. Open Universities Australia will round out the mix with their applications for .courses and .study.”
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so “a more local presence for the Arab world is a good thing”.
He added: “I am not sure whether we will initially see a major take-up of services relating to Arabic names—we only have to look at the launch of the .shabaka domain to see that only 1 percent of the total new gTLD registrations has gone for an Arabic internationalised domain name. But that number will grow and it will provide a vital local service in the growth of the internet in the Arab world.”
Alongside .shabaka , which means ‘web’
in Arabic, ICANN received gTLD applications such as .abudhabi
and .arab .
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