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.