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Record UDRP filings in 2016 — WIPO touts

Record UDRP filings in 2016 — WIPO touts

UDRP filings at WIPO crossed the 3,000 threshold for the first time last year.

3,036 Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP) cases were filed with WIPO in 2016, a record.

This record is only as it pertains to disputes filed with WIPO and does not represent total UDRP filings across all UDRP hearings.

And although WIPO released a bunch of stats regarding the year’s filings, there was no mention of the number of reverse domain name hijacking cases.

The 3,036 cases represent a 10% increase over the prior year. Fresh top level domain names represented 16% of cases.

In terms of the total domains at issue, .com names represented 67% of disputes. It was followed by .xyz, .net .top and .org.

Philip Morris filed the most cases (67) at WIPO last year.

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