Model Response and Filing Guidelines

The WIPO Center has prepared a Model Response intended to serve as a guide for the preparation of a response under the Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP) Rules and WIPO Supplemental Rules.

When officially notifying a Complaint to a Respondent, Paragraph 4(a) of the UDRP Rules requires the WIPO Center to provide the Respondent with a set of instructions about what its obligations are in the administrative proceeding. These instructions differ in accordance with the election of the Complainant in the administrative proceeding for an Administrative Panel consisting of either a single panelist or three panelists.

 

Filing Guidelines

• Submit the Response to the WIPO Center as an attachment to an e-mail sent to domain.disputes@wipo.int. The attachment should be submitted as a Word document, Word Perfect document, PDF file, text file or RTF file. Annexes to the Response that are not available in electronic format need not be submitted.
• Copy the above e-mail to the Complainant in accordance with the contact details specified by the Complainant in the Complaint;
• Send a signed original and four copies of the Response by postal mail or courier service with return receipt requested to (including any attachments not available in electronic format):

• Send a copy of the Response and all attachments by postal mail or courier service with return receipt requested to the Complainant in accordance with the contact details indicated by the Complainant in the Complaint;
• There is no need to send the Response to the concerned registrar(s).
• If the Respondent is required to make a payment and that payment is being submitted by check, the check should be sent to the Center with the hardcopies. If the payment is not being made by check, then the Respondent should inform the Center as to how payment is being made.

 

Additional information

The following documents can be consulted in connection with preparing and filing a Response:

• UDRP Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP Policy)
• UDRP Rules for Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP Rules)
• WIPO Supplemental Rules for Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy

Parties may also wish to consult the Legal Index of WIPO UDRP Panel Decisions.

Questions concerning the filing requirements may be sent by e-mail to arbiter.mail@wipo.int.