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WHO WILL BE THE ARBITRATORS?

It is a genuine concern for all parties to know who will be the Arbitrator. In some systems, Arbitrators are simply experts in their field, but have no knowledge of legal procedures. CIDD is not like this. The Arbitrators are all qualified barristers or solicitors with at least 10 years experience and in many cases over 20 years experience. They will have had this experience in litigation and in commerical law so they know how to deliver fair and impartial justice. Using CIDD, they can do it at a lot less than using a Court.

START A DISPUTE

For COMMERCIAL DISPUTES:
Just take a look at the CoIPTA section and you'll see simple easy to understand rules. CoPITA Arbitration brings confidential dispute resolution. No public dispute. No damage to reputation, just sensible Dispute resolution
For DOMAIN DISPUTES:
See the specific domain links. - or download the Golden Nuggets of CIDD Domain Dispute Filings guide. Remember ICANN requires the results of Domiain Disputes to be public.

DO I NEED TO ENGAGE A LAWYER?

A lawyer is usually preferable but the CIDD UDRP or CIDD CoTIPA Arbitration system is designed to be used without a lawyer. To ensure that a fair decision is reached, all of our Arbitrators are barristers or solicitors of 10 years call or more. Ensure that you are aware of the rules and our published guides on the site. Think of it like a Small Claims Court but handling more complex matters, whether an internal dispute within your company, technology, contractual dispute or a domain dispute.

Why CIDD?

Channel Islands Domain Dispute UDRP
CIDD provides Arbitration Services generally and a Domain Dispute resolution services to a number of ccTLD registries and is currently negotiating with other ccTLD registries in order to provide domain dispute resolution services to those registries.   Languages of Arbitrators vary but currently arbitrations can be accepted in English, French, Chinese and Russian languages.

In order to challenge ownership of a domain, it is necessary to either use the Domain Dispute service or to go to Court. 

What is our experience?
We are providers of mediation and arbitration in relation to European issues of Communications, Information, Internet, Intellectual Property and related fields. All of our providers are qualified as barristers or solicitors or avocats or lawyers in relevant European jurisdictions.

Providing cost-effective, IT-enabled and private resolution of disputes across the entire communications industry, we provide an alternative means of solving communications disputes which fall outside the remit of the industry regulators and where the choice is to provide ADR as the alternative to the expensive route of litigation, a route that can be drawn out and damaging for all parties due to high legal costs, tying up of valuable internal expert resources, publication of sensitive company data and the unwanted media interest.  We provide a cost effective, quick, independent and impartial access to mediation and adjudication service to ensure fair dealing within the entire Internet and Communications industry.

Confidentiality
Most of our clients choose to keep their relationship with us a confidential matter and to also keep our decisions confidential, this is particularly true of the Private Client Dispute Arbitration Service.
Submissions are private to the parties and may only be used and referred to in respect of the CIDD CoPITA dispute in question.

DOMAIN DISPUTES
In relation to Domain Disputes, we act for 6 Internet registries handling disputes over names and most are confidential although two of the Registries openly advertise our service and both utilise a variant of Scheme 1. 
.GG – The Guernsey registry uses a variant of Scheme 1.
.JE – The Jersey registry uses a variant of Scheme 1.
No monies are received by the Registries for their handling of the service and the Dispute Fee purely pays for the costs of the arbitration. 

NOTE: Domain Dispute services are published and decisions are not subject to confidentiality. 
We act for 6 Internet registries handling disputes over names and most are confidential although two of the Registries openly advertise our service and both utilise a variant of Scheme 1.