What is the UDRP?

What does UDRP mean?

All registrars must follow the Uniform Domain-Name Dispute-Resolution Policy (often referred to as the "UDRP").

Every registrar of generic endings such as .com must follow it. The complainant shows three things: the name is identical or confusingly similar to a mark the complainant has rights in; the holder has no legitimate interest in it; it was registered and is being used in bad faith.

Names ending in .ca follow CIRA's own policy, the CDRP. Its test is close to the UDRP's, with a Canadian presence rule for the complainant. A panel that decides for the complainant chooses whether the name is deleted or transferred.

A decision takes weeks. Against a look-alike sending fraud this week, the faster steps are a report to the registrar and to the host. The policy is the way to take the name for good.

If the Panel decides in favour of the Complainant, the Panel will decide whether the Registration should be deleted or transferred to the Complainant.

Where does it show up in a reading?

In a LeakTrace reading it is read under “Look-alike names”: names made from yours, each asked whether it is registered and set up for mail.

Each look-alike is listed with its registrar, the party a takedown request or a complaint goes to.

Which pages use this term?

• Look-alike domains: questions and answers
• Look-alike domain
• Registrar hold