About ADNDRC

A new center to settle disputes over Internet domain names will be launched Thursday by two chief arbitration institutions, the Beijing-based China International Economic and Trade Arbitration Commission (CIETAC) and the Hong kong International Arbitration Center (HKIAC).

The Asian Domain Name Dispute Resolution Center is the first dispute-resolution service provider in Asia authorized by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers to administer and provide neutral ground for disputes alleging registration abuses in the use of Internet domain names.

The center is to provide a dispute-resolution service for disputed generic top-level domain names such as .com, .net and .org, according to Neil Kaplan, chairman of the Hong Kong arbitration center.

The Asian domain-name center provides a web-based on-line domain dispute-resolution system, which is designed to help resolve disputes at a very economical cost.

Other Three Domain Name Dispute-settlement Centers

The center, which has branches in Beijing and Hongkong is one of only four approved dispute-resolution centers in the world, two of the others being in the United States, one in Geneva, Switzerland. Some 7,000 disputes over top-level domains have been settled by the other three centers.

ADNDRC joins the three dispute-resolution providers that have been designated by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN): New York-based CPR Center for Dispute Resolution; Minneapolis-based National Arbitration Forum; and the Geneva-based World Intellectual Property Organization. HKIAC : HKIAC, established in 1985 to assist disputing parties solve disputes by arbitration and by other means of dispute resolution, is widely respected throughout the international community as the focus for Asia of dispute resolutions. CIETAC: CIETAC, established in 1956, is the international commercial arbitration institution in China and is headquartered in Beijing. The Shenzhen Sub-Commission and Shanghai Sub-Commission were established respectively in 1989 and 1990 in view of the expansion of arbitration services. CIETAC's, caseload has increased with the rapid development of the Chinese economy and demand for the resolution of international or foreign-related disputes. ICANN : ICANN is a non-profit, private-sector corporation, dedicated to preserving the operational stability of the Internet; to promoting competition; to achieving broad representation of global Internet communities; and to developing policy through private-sector, bottom-up, consensus-based means. ICANN welcomes participation of any interested Internet user, business, or organization.