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From 7th July 2026, the administrative and backend processes behind Nominet’s Dispute Resolution Service (DRS) will transfer to the World Intellectual Property Organisation’s Arbitration and Mediation Centre (WIPO). The service itself remains unchanged with the same expert panellists working to the existing DRS Policy, Nominet staff facilitated mediation, and the same fee schedule. Since launching […]

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From 7th July 2026, the administrative and backend processes behind Nominet’s Dispute Resolution Service (DRS) will transfer to the World Intellectual Property Organisation’s Arbitration and Mediation Centre (WIPO). The service itself remains unchanged with the same expert panellists working to the existing DRS Policy, Nominet staff facilitated mediation, and the same fee schedule. Since launching […]

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Same policy, same experts, same fees. The change is the filing desk.

What matters in practice:

• new complaints from 7 July go through WIPO’s form, not Nominet’s old one;
• cases opened before that date stay with Nominet until they finish;
• the old decision archive stays on Nominet — that is still the place to check whether a name already had a DRS.

It is not UDRP. Rights + abusive registration under the DRS policy, with Nominet mediation still in the path. Buyers who treat a .uk like a .com UDRP file will file in the wrong box.