Did you ever want to search both WIPO and NAF cybersquatting decisions without having to access each provider's UDRP search tools? DomainFight.net solves this problem by searching all cybersquatting panel decisions from both WIPO and NAF from a single search engine.
ANNOUNCER: Today’s program is brought to you by Traverse Legal, a law firm specializing in Internet law, domain disputes and technology company representation. That’s Traverse Legal, www.traverselegal.com. Welcome to the Vertio Talk Radio Tech Spotlight with your host Damien Allen.
DAMIEN: Good morning. Welcome to the Vertio Talk Radio Tech Spotlight. I am Damien Allen. In the studio via the phone we have Mr. Enrico Schaefer, who is the owner UspeakWetype Technologies. Good morning, Enrico!
ENRICO: Good morning, Damien. How are you doing today?
DAMIEN: Not too bad. I understand you’re launching a new site and the name of that site is domainfight.net. Want to tell us a little bit about it?
ENRICO: Sure. It’s a cybersquatting search engine, Damien. We created this tool because it solves one of the problems that we’ve always had as lawyers doing cybersquatting cases and that is that there is a common policy which applies to all domain names and it’s called the Uniform Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP). So, every person that registers a domain agrees to be bound by the UDRP. What the UDRP says is that if there is a trademark fight between a trademark holder and a domain holder – so if I were to register Microsoftbestsoftware.com, Microsoft wouldn’t be very happy with me – and the UDRP is a policy which will control who wins the fight over that domain name and when you sign up, when you register for a domain, you agree to be bound by the UDRP and you agree that one of two primary arbitration authorities will actually here the dispute. Those arbitration authorities are (WIPO), The World Intellectual Property Organization, and (NAF), The National Arbitration Forum. So we created this little search tool to help solve the problem of searching for panel decisions from both NAF and WIPO.
DAMIEN: Tell us a little bit more about UDRP and WIPO and NAF. Is there a specific thing each one of these do? Do NAF and WIPO do the same thing? What exactly does each of the bodies do?
ENRICO: WIPO and NAF are two companies and there job is to provide arbitrators for cybersquatting disputes. So, if I’ve got a cybersquatting case that I want to have decided under the UDRP as a complainant, I can choose to go to either WIPO or to NAF to provide the arbitration for that dispute. So, NAF and WIPO will issue panel decisions on these domain name disputes and then publish them online. So, if I were to go to the NAF website and dig into the NAF website, I’d be able to find a little search engine to take a look at all the UDRP panel decisions decided by NAF. I could also do the same thing for WIPO. I could go to the Wipo.org site. I can dig in there and find the search tool which will allow me to look for all WIPO decisions under the UDRP. What I could not do until domainfight.net would be to search both databases at the same time. So if I wanted to see all NAF and all WIPO decisions against a particular respondent, I now can go to domainfight.net. I can do a search or respondent search and pull up all of the cases decided under both arbitration authorities against that particular respondent. So, domainfight.net really solves that simple little problem of the inconvenience of having to go to two separate websites and run two search queries on two search engines in order to be able to get my brain around various UDRP panel decisions that have already been decided. We think that the greatest little innovations on the web, the greatest little tools, the greatest little websites, are the ones that do something relative simple but solve a very big problem. And this solved the problem for us. That’s why we created it and now we’ve made it available for the rest of the world as well.
DAMIEN: How do you expect this will be received?
ENRICO: I think it will be received very well because we talked to attorneys and clients who are involved in cybersquatting matters all the time and for years we have certainly discussed the frustration of boy it would be great to have a single search engine would pull both NAF and WIPO cases and provide you a single set of results for both arbitration authorities. So I think it’s going to be very well received. There’s lots of different applications here Damien. Trademark holders sometimes want to find out whether or not there have been other decisions against a particular respondent who they believe is cybersquatting on them. So they can go to the tool and they can do a respondent search. People who have domain name who have received threat letters from trademark owners can go to the tool and see whether or not a trademark holder has ever been a complainant in a case before to see how aggressively their pursuing their marks, or whether they’ve won and whether they’ve lost in these types of things. If I have a particular interest in all the UDRP decisions which deal with gripe sites or dot sucks cases, I can go to the search tool and I can pull all the gripe site cases up from a single search engine. So, for the trademark holders there’s a tremendous amount of value for their attorneys who are trying to prepare UDRP arbitration complaints, this search tool is going to provide them a much needed resource, and for the general public that just wants to poke around in the UDRP area and get information and see decisions. There’s certainly a lot of value here for them as well. You can do a complainant search, a respondent search, a full text search, you can search by domain name and you can search by panel decision number, by case number. So, you will be able to search the database in lots of different ways depending on what information you’re looking for.
DAMIEN: Indeed! And having one tool that draws not only from both the resources of the arbitration, it also gives you the entire UDRP information all in one spot. A Time-saving, grief-saving great idea.
ENRICO: Thanks, Damien. We appreciate it.
DAMIEN: We thank you very much for joining us today to tell us about it.
ENRICO: No problem. Have a great day, Damien.
DAMIEN: You too. And thank you for joining us today on the Vertio.net Tech Spotlight and we will catch you next time. I’m Damien Allen from the studio. Good afternoon.
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