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Domain name disputes can hijack your brand's most important online address, and we recover lost domains and shut down cybersquatters through UDRP, URS, ACPA litigation, and direct negotiation.

Your domain name is often the first thing a customer types and the last thing you want a cybersquatter holding hostage. When someone registers a name that trades on your trademark, you need to get it back fast and without bleeding cash on litigation. We help you protect your brand across the domain name system, from strategic registration and monitoring to enforcement actions that recover infringing domains worldwide.

UDRP Recovery Proceedings

The Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy is your fastest path to recovering a domain registered in bad faith, covering .com, .net, .org, and many country-code domains. To win, you show the domain is identical or confusingly similar to your mark, the registrant has no legitimate interest, and the domain was registered and used in bad faith. Decisions typically land in 60 to 90 days at a fraction of federal court cost. We build the complaint, marshal the evidence, and argue to win.

Rapid Suspension For New gTLDs

The Uniform Rapid Suspension system handles clear-cut cybersquatting in new generic top-level domains even faster than UDRP. The tradeoff is a higher bar: you must prove bad faith by clear and convincing evidence. In exchange you get lower fees and resolution in roughly 30 days. A win suspends the domain for the rest of its registration term rather than transferring it to you. We tell you up front whether URS or UDRP fits your dispute, then run the option that gets you the result you want.

ACPA Federal Litigation

When you need real teeth, the Anticybersquatting Consumer Protection Act gives you federal court remedies that administrative panels cannot. ACPA allows statutory damages up to $100,000 per domain, in rem jurisdiction to sue the domain itself when the registrant has vanished, and discovery that UDRP never offers. You can fold ACPA claims into trademark infringement and dilution actions for a coordinated enforcement push. We take cybersquatters to court when the situation calls for more than a transfer order.

Country-Code And Cross-Border Disputes

Country-code domains like .uk, .de, .cn, and .au each run their own dispute resolution rules, evidentiary standards, and sometimes local-presence requirements. Some track UDRP closely; others go their own way entirely. Getting a domain back in a foreign extension means knowing exactly which procedure applies and what proof it demands. We handle disputes across the major ccTLDs and coordinate with local counsel wherever a jurisdiction calls for boots on the ground.

Proactive Protection And Portfolio Management

The cheapest dispute is the one you prevent. We help you register core brands across the extensions that matter, defensively grab common misspellings and variations, and set up monitoring that flags suspect registrations before a bad actor can build anything on them. The expanded landscape of over a thousand gTLDs adds Trademark Clearinghouse rights, sunrise periods, and far more space to watch. We focus your spend on the domains that actually protect your brand and keep renewals on track.

Frequently asked questions

A UDRP proceeding usually runs about 45 to 60 days from filing to decision. That's much faster than going to court, which is a big part of why it's often the first tool for recovering a domain.

A UDRP can get the domain transferred to you or canceled, and that's it. It doesn't award money damages or attorneys' fees, so if you're after compensation, UDRP isn't the right vehicle.

Go the ACPA litigation route when you want damages, when the case is a close call and you'd benefit from the fuller procedural protections of court, or when you can't get jurisdiction over the registrant any other way. Otherwise UDRP is usually faster and cheaper.

Bad faith shows up in patterns: registering the domain to sell it to you, a history of cybersquatting, registering it to block you from using your own mark, using it to confuse your customers, or having no legitimate reason to hold it at all. The more of these you can document, the stronger your case.

Privacy protection doesn't stop you. Both UDRP and ACPA proceedings can move forward against a privacy-shielded registrant, and registrars typically reveal the real owner once a formal proceeding is filed.

Often, yes. Grabbing key variations of your name up front is usually cheaper than fighting over them later. We help you decide how wide to cast the net so you're protecting the variations that matter without paying to register every possible permutation.

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