Domain name disputes
Someone registered a domain using your brand. Here is how you get it back.
A UDRP complaint transfers the domain to you without going to court. It costs €1,050 in fees to us plus the WIPO filing fee from $1,500, and most cases are decided in about two months.
When the UDRP is the right tool
The Uniform Domain-Name Dispute-Resolution Policy applies to every .com, .net, .org and new gTLD domain, plus a number of country-code domains. Every registrant agreed to it when they bought the name, which is why a panel can order a transfer without any court involvement.
It works when someone has registered a domain that matches your trademark, has no legitimate reason to hold it, and is using it in bad faith. Parked pages full of ads, resale demands, phishing sites and competitor redirects are the usual patterns.
It does not work for every domain dispute. If the other side has a genuine business under that name, if your trademark rights came after their registration, or if the argument is really a contract dispute with a former partner, a UDRP complaint will fail and you will have spent the filing fee finding out. We say so before you file.
Why bring this to us
Gergana Dimitrova worked at the WIPO Arbitration and Mediation Center from 2018 to 2021, administering UDRP cases and reviewing panel decisions for inclusion in WIPO's public case resources. Since 2024 she has decided domain name cases herself as a panelist at the Czech Arbitration Court.
Complaints are drafted knowing how panels read them, because she has read them from the panel's side.
Guides
What the UDRP is
The policy, who it binds and which domains it covers.
How to file a complaint
What a complaint contains, what evidence you need and what happens after filing.
The three elements
All three have to be proved. Most failed complaints fail on the second.
Bad faith
What panels accept as evidence of bad faith registration and use.
What it costs
WIPO fees, our fee, and whether you can recover either.
How long it takes
Filing to transfer, stage by stage, with the actual deadlines.
Responding to a complaint
You have twenty days. What to do if the domain is legitimately yours.
Cybersquatting
Typosquatting, parked pages, resale demands and phishing domains.
Domain name vs trademark
Registering a domain gives you no brand rights. What each one actually protects.
UDRP decisions
The published decisions we argue from, summarised, one page each.
Send us the domain name and we will tell you whether a complaint would succeed.
The first assessment is free and comes back within 24 hours. If the case is weak we will explain why rather than take the fee.