Hello all,

I am participating in this Working Group since February this year and we are trying to find a way for International Governmental Organizations to use UDRP and URS in order to defend their names and acronyms from being use in domain names.

The Work Track scope is defined and limited by the GNSO Council’s instructions that any recommended policy actions be “generally consistent” with Recommendations 1-4 from the Curative Rights PDP. Given the GNSO Council’s instructions, it is currently out of scope for the Work Track to develop a separate dispute resolution process for IGOs.
There are two challenges that IGOs face with using the current form of the UDRP and URS: (1) the requirement to have a trademark in order to have standing to file a complaint; and (2) the requirement to submit to Mutual Jurisdiction, which can compromise an IGO’s immunities and privileges in relation to the jurisdiction of a court in which a registrant files proceedings against an IGO.

The group has been having a zoom meeting almost every week and I think that a lot of progress has been made and there is a way forward to solve IGOs problems.

I am enclosing the latest draft proposal that is being discussed in the group.

If any of you have any comment or question please let me know.

Best regards,

Ing. Osvaldo Novoa

Sub Gerente General

Relaciones Internacionales

Antel

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