UDRP's with WIPO - How are your neighbors doing?

[IAmAllanShore]

From:
http://www.wipo.int/amc/en/domains/statistics/cumulative/countries.html

Somewhat surprising, but interesting to see the breakdown of where the complainants are from vs. the respondents. Biggest surprise? Maybe Canada... those canucks like pushing buttons apparently


Geographical Distribution of Parties cumulative: gTLDs

Last updated: 13-Dec-2006
List of Countries Domicile of Complainant Domicile of Respondent
Afghanistan (AF) 0 1
Albania (AL) 0 1
Algeria (DZ) 0 4
Andorra (AD) 1 4
Angola (AO) 0 1
Antigua and Barbuda (AG) 10 28
Argentina (AR) 23 19
Armenia (AM) 0 15
Australia (AU) 167 196
Austria (AT) 73 24
Azerbaijan (AZ) 0 1
Bahamas (BS) 6 71
Bahrain (BH) 0 7
Bangladesh (BD) 0 3
Barbados (BB) 4 4
Belarus (BY) 0 5
Belgium (BE) 37 32
Belize (BZ) 0 39
Benin (BJ) 0 1
Bolivia (BO) 0 2
Bosnia and Herzegovina (BA) 1 1
Brazil (BR) 86 53
Bulgaria (BG) 1 13
Burkina Faso (BF) 0 2
Canada (CA) 193 468
Chile (CL) 11 12
China (CN) 56 494
Colombia (CO) 20 9
Comoros (KM) 1 0
Cook Islands (CK) 0 1
Costa Rica (CR) 4 29
Côte d´Ivoire (CI) 0 1
Croatia (HR) 2 19
Cuba (CU) 1 1
Cyprus (CY) 3 17
Czech Republic (CZ) 5 13
Denmark (DK) 67 19
Dominica (DM) 0 18
Dominican Republic (DO) 1 2
Ecuador (EC) 2 6
Egypt (EG) 2 4
El Salvador (SV) 0 4
Equatorial Guinea (GQ) 0 2
Estonia (EE) 0 9
Fiji (FJ) 1 1
Finland (FI) 63 22
France (FR) 841 210
Georgia (GE) 0 3
Germany (DE) 545 131
Ghana (GH) 0 1
Greece (GR) 5 10
Guatemala (GT) 2 3
Haiti (HT) 0 2
Honduras (HN) 1 1
Hungary (HU) 2 9
Iceland (IS) 1 2
India (IN) 101 117
Indonesia (ID) 2 21
Iran, Islamic Republic of (IR) 0 11
Iraq (IQ) 1 3
Ireland (IE) 45 49
Israel (IL) 8 47
Italy (IT) 303 159
Jamaica (JM) 11 3
Japan (JP) 135 71
Jordan (JO) 2 7
Kazakhstan (KZ) 0 2
Kenya (KE) 0 71
Kuwait (KW) 0 6
Lao People's Democratic Republic (LA) 0 1
Latvia (LV) 1 7
Lebanon (LB) 6 14
Libyan Arab Jamahiriya (LY) 0 1
Liechtenstein (LI) 5 1
Lithuania (LT) 0 6
Luxembourg (LU) 12 5
Malaysia (MY) 15 49
Malta (MT) 2 4
Mauritius (MU) 1 1
Mexico (MX) 49 55
Monaco (MC) 35 2
Montenegro (ME) 0 1
Morocco (MA) 1 4
Namibia (NA) 0 1
Nepal (NP) 0 4
Netherlands (NL) 168 132
New Zealand (NZ) 14 43
Nicaragua (NI) 0 4
Nigeria (NG) 0 4
Norway (NO) 21 25
Oman (OM) 0 1
Pakistan (PK) 0 41
Panama (PA) 0 95
Papua New Guinea (PG) 0 2
Paraguay (PY) 0 1
Peru (PE) 4 5
Philippines (PH) 1 24
Poland (PL) 4 39
Portugal (PT) 19 23
Qatar (QA) 1 1
Republic of Korea (KR) 47 487
Republic of Moldova (MD) 0 6
Romania (RO) 3 6
Russian Federation (RU) 7 135
Saint Kitts and Nevis (KN) 0 21
Saint Lucia (LC) 0 1
Saudi Arabia (SA) 4 13
Senegal (SN) 2 2
Serbia (RS) 0 2
Seychelles (SC) 0 3
Singapore (SG) 28 27
Slovakia (SK) 3 3
Slovenia (SI) 4 8
South Africa (ZA) 23 15
Spain (ES) 463 446
Sri Lanka (LK) 0 2
Suriname (SR) 0 1
Swaziland (SZ) 0 1
Sweden (SE) 123 65
Switzerland (CH) 371 72
Thailand (TH) 4 41
Trinidad and Tobago (TT) 0 1
Tunisia (TN) 0 1
Turkey (TR) 43 72
Uganda (UG) 0 1
Ukraine (UA) 0 24
United Arab Emirates (AE) 10 27
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (GB) 777 841
United Republic of Tanzania (TZ) 1 1
United States of America (US) 4477 4027
Uruguay (UY) 2 22
Vanuatu (VU) 14 3
Venezuela (VE) 18 29
Viet Nam (VN) 0 8
Zambia (ZM) 0 1
Zimbabwe (ZW) 0 1
Total: 136 9629 9629

-Allan :gl:

 

[Keynes]

It's interesting to look at the ratio of origin and respondent for a given country, as its a general proxy for level of IP enforcement.

 

[IAmAllanShore]

It's interesting to look at the ratio of origin and respondent for a given country, as its a general proxy for level of IP enforcement.

Or the feeling by its citizenry that they are somehow "protected" from the "longer-arm" of the law by their not being in the US/FR/GB/DE... There have been two threads in the legal issues forum recently about how the OP thought that they were fine registering _insertTMhere_.ccTLD because both they and the extension weren't in the US.

Anyhow,
-Allan :gl: