What\s ICANN got to do with it?
The California-based Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) is the non-profit corporation that was formed to assume responsibility for domain name system management, among other things. It is ICANN”s policy that registrars receiving complaints about domain names infringing on trademarks or service marks can not act to transfer or cancel the domain names in question until they receive an order from a court, an arbitrator, or other neutral decision maker working to resolve the parties” dispute. When, however, the issue is one of cybersquatting (where a domain name has been registered specifically for the purpose of trying to profit from another”s trademark or service mark), the complaining party can use ICANN”s special administrative procedure, rather than going to court. There are four ICANN-accredited domain name dispute resolution providers, each of whom agrees to follow the ICANN Uniform Policy on Dispute Resolution. They are CPR Institute for Dispute Resolut
