Quasi Stare Decisis in Domain Name Arbitration under WIPO
Tiantian Gao · Hebei faxue · 2009
Domain name,from a technical view,is a kind of method to solve the problems of IP address parallelism.Cyber-squatting usually means the behavior of registering other people's trade mark and/or trade name as one's own domain name.In the recent years,the setup,administration of domain name system and the related intellectual property disputes have long been the focus of discussion worldwide.WIPO,being the first Service Provider of domain name dispute settlement appointed by ICANN,has played a significant role in solving Internet-related domain name disputes since its receiving of authorization on November 29,1999.This paper starts with The Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy(UDRP),it also introduces many WIPO arbitral cases.The paper sums up some fundamental rules of WIPO's domain name arbitration and finally educes the theory of quasi stare decisis.