Please settle domain disputes peacefully

A majority of the Internet community in Switzerland would like to see an out-of-court dispute resolution service for .ch domains, according to a study conducted by the Internet registry Switch and the Federal Office of Communications. If there is a disagreement about the rights to a domain name that has already been registered, the parties would like a quick and cost-effective procedure to assert their interests, according to a press release from Switch. Although the Swiss legal system is efficient and cost-effective, 54 percent of the 1,000 respondents said that the establishment of a dispute resolution service was important. The analysis of the survey is available as a PDF file at www.switch.ch.