The National Arbitration Forum, an international provider of dispute resolution services approved by the Internet Corporation of Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), said that 1,759 cases were filed in its domain name dispute resolution program in 2009. This is only a slight decrease from the 1,770 cases filed in 2008.

According to the National Arbitration Forum, the vast majority of cases filed (96.5 percent) involved domain names including .com and .org.

Notable cases involved trademarks such as Ed Hardy, Hewlett-Packard, Kate Hudson and Victoria’s Secret. The National Arbitration Forum also issued the largest single decision on record, involving the transfer of 1,017 domain names to ConsumerInfo.com, Inc. on November 11, 2009.

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