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Article: WWF fights its corner on www; New rule governing domain name disputes offer speedy solution for WWF. Stuart Casey says it's not all good news.(Brief Article)
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- Brand Strategy
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- February 18, 2000
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The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers's (ICANN) new domain name dispute policy has replaced the former well known 'network solutions' dispute policy. This new policy became effective, in most circumstances, from 1 January 2000 and is designed to regulate claims by trademark owners against all .com, .net and .org top level domain names registered by other people.
Under the new policy the entitlement to a disputed domain name will now be resolved by a 'provider', a confusing term which refers to an organisation approved to administer the dispute resolution process. This is different from the old position, which can best be described as 'sort it ...