Canada’s domain name dispute policy has been the subject of a year-long review, which will see the introduction of changes that should make the process more efficient. Victoria Carrington explains.
Canada’s domain name dispute policy has been the subject of a year-long review, which will see the introduction of changes that should make the process more efficient. Victoria Carrington explains.
Canada’s domain name dispute resolution policy for .ca domains (CDRP) took effect in 2002. The CDRP was modelled after ICANN’s Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP), which applies to domains registered in the gTLDs and those ccTLDs whose registries have adopted the policy.
The many similarities between the two policies are likely responsible for the comparable success rates of complainants under each (i.e. approximately 74 percent for the CDRP in 2010 and about 79 percent for the UDRP overall). However, there are certain key differences between the policies, some of which result from the need for the UDRP to function internationally in the absence of a common denominator between jurisdictions and legal systems applicable to the parties to the disputes.
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ccTLDs, domain names, ICANN, gTLDs, Google, ISPs
