UDRP Providers: And Then There Were Three
In a recent e-mail, Otto Franco notes that on January 5, 2007 CPR, one of the four ICANN-accredited dispute resolution providers authorized to decide UDRP complaints, gave notice to ICANN that effective January 12, 2007, it would no longer be accepting filings under the UDRP rules to resolve domain name disputes.
The message did not explain CPR’s reasons. But it’s worth noting that few complainants have chosen to file their cases with CPR. The likely reason is that CPR’s filing fees were considerably higher than those of the competition. For example, for a case involving 3-5 disputed domain names and heard before a single panelist, CPR charged complainants $2,500 - more than twice the amount charged by ADNDRC (another provider) for a comparable case ($1,200).
And speaking of ADNDRC, that has so far operated offices in Beijing and Hokg Kong, has began accepting cases in its Seoul office, too.
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