Dispute Resolution Process Submission

From:		BengeWeb Services, Glenn Benge
Received:	24 February 2005


Our company will strongly support a non-courts based procedure for resolving 
disputes between parties over domain name rights. 

In a similar way that the cases to the Employment and Tenancy Tribunals are 
heard by non judicial adjudicators, so too should domain name disputes. 

Not only would a disputes process (run by Office of the DNC) be a lot more 
accessible to the "small guy", it seems it would also be heard by people with 
real-world industry knowledge and able to hand down decisions based on a more 
human context than lawyer-speak arguments. 

The decisions resulting from the resolution process I'm sure would hold more 
confidence from the stake holders in the industry because they have come out 
of the Office of the DNC. 

Domain name disputes require an initial attempt at resolution before parties 
need to resort to court action and that court action would be deemed 
unnecessary in most cases once the DRP decision had been handed down.