On October 24, 1999, ICANN implemented its Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy ("UDRP"), a mechanism for resolving domain name disputes which has been adopted by all accredited registrars of .com, .net and .org top-level domains, as well as some managers of country-code top-level domains. In the more than one year since its promulgation, the UDRP has proven to be an expedient and effective alternative for trademark domain name disputes in which a litigant seeks only to compel transfer of a domain name.
