Up 10% in Q3 — UDRP decisions

More UDRP decisions in Q3, and more RDNH findings, too.

Chart showing transfer rate by UDRP provider: nWIPO 94%, Forum 95.5%, CAC 97.4%, ADNDRS 90.3%, CIIDRS 42.9%.

GigaLaw has published its Q3 UDRP note, showing that UDRP decisions in Q3 were up 9.89% compared to the same quarter of 2024.

This reverses the trend of the previous quarter, in which decisions were down 2.6% compared to the same quarter of 2024.

While the case load increased in Q3, it actually covered fewer domain names than a year ago. Cases can cover many domain names, such as the 7-Eleven case decided last quarter that included 295 domain names.

Here are some other interesting data from the note:

Transfers were ordered in 93.3% of decisions, down slightly from 94.2% last quarter.
Czech Arbitration Court had the highest win rate in favor of Complainants at 97.4%. WIPO was 94.0%.
Twenty-six cases resulted in reverse domain name hijacking decisions, compared to 20 last quarter.
.Shop, .net, and .sbs were the subject of the most disputes that didn’t involve .com.
There were 32 disputes over .ai domains. That’s an increase of 10 from Q2, and you can expect that trend to increase as .ai continues to grow in importance.
European retailer Carrefour filed the most disputes (33) in the quarter.

There’s a lot more data in the note, and it’s worth reviewing in full.

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