Domain Name Dispute Resolution

For all challenges involving domain names -- whether registered since the start of General Registration in September 2006 or during Sunrise Registration -- please use ICANN's Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP). There is no time limit for a UDRP challenge, and a challenge can be made at any time against any .mobi domain name.

Sunrise Registration Dispute Resolution

dotMobi provided a special service for the resolution of disputed domain names registered during the Sunrise Registration Period; details of that special service are outlined below. As noted above, all domain name challenges -- including Sunrise Registration disputes -- are now handled exclusively through the UDRP Policy 

Special Sunrise Registration Dispute Resolution Service

This service was available during the Sunrise Registration Challenge period, which began on 28 August 2006 and continued until 15 December 2006. Dispute resolution services were provided exclusively by the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO); challenges were submitted directly to WIPO.

The challenger had to submit its challenge request directly to WIPO.

For additional information, please refer to the WIPO site and to the following documents:

1. The Sunrise Registration Challenge Policy set forth the terms and conditions in connection with a dispute.
2. The Sunrise Registration Challenge Rules set the rules that were used in Sunrise Challenge administrative proceedings. It explains the grounds on which a challenge could be made, how to file and respond to a challenge, notices, fees, and so on.

The only bases for a valid challenge to a Sunrise Registration were if:

1. at the time of the Respondent’s registration of the Domain Name, no current (non-expired) trademark or service mark registration was registered in the Respondent’s name; or
2. the Domain Name was not identical to the textual or word elements of the trademark or service mark registration on which the registration of the Respondent’s Domain Name is based; or
3. the trademark or service mark registration on which the registration of the Respondent’s Domain Name is based was not of national effect; or
4. the trademark or service mark on which the registration of the Respondent’s Domain Name was based was not registered or applied for, prior to July 11, 2005, with the trademark authority with which the mark is registered.

ALL SUNRISE CHALLENGES HAD TO BE SUBMITTED TO WIPO NO LATER THAN 12:00 NOON GMT, 15 DECEMBER 2006.