Decision databases

All the major dispute resolution service providers post copies of panellists' decisions online. Many of the decisions are formulaic, made up in large part of recitations of the parties' arguments. Despite this, and despite there being no formal system of precedent, the best way to understand how decisions are made is to read them.

Official resources

ICANN Index Search - This tool allows you to search ICANN's index of UDRP decisions, which is updated daily.

ICANN Text Search - This tool allows you to search the full text of ICANN's database of UDRP decisions, updated weekly.

WIPO UDRP Decisions - The WIPO database is split between include gTLD decisions and ccTLD decisions. Full text searching is available.

NAF UDRP Decisions - NAF's recently-improved search facility allows you to search by reference to case number, case name, domain name, case date, decision date, rule set, complainant name, respondent name and/or case status. Full text searching is also available.

CPR UDRP Decisions - CPR handles far fewer cases than WIPO or NAF (just 16 in the first half of 2006). This page lists all the CPR UDRP decisions since June 2000.

EURid Decisions - The new database of .eu decisions doesn't have a search facility yet - but the popularity of the .eu extension and the poor drafting of the dispute rules mean it's likely to need one soon.

Nominet Decisions - The Nominet database of .uk decisions sorely misses a proper search facility.

eResolution Decisions - eResolution ceased handling UDRP disputes in December 2001. This database of its panellists' decisions is hosted by the University of Massachusetts.

Third party resources

ADR Decisions.eu - A search facility for .eu (and other) decisions created by Thomas Schafft.

UDRPinfo.com Analysis Tool - The database from UDRPinfo.com includes decisions up to February 2002.

UDRP Tracking Project - A Microsoft Access database of containing summaries of the first 3,850 UDRP cases, starting with the first in December 1999 and ending with cases commenced in July 2001.