January 8th, 2014
Time for the NAF 2013 TOP TEN

As everyone knows, there are two major arbitration bodies authorized by ICANN to handle UDRP Cases. On Monday, we listed the top panelists at WIPO that have Denied more claims than all the other panelists.

Today, we turn our attention to the National Arbitration Forum (NAF) located in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The NAF made news this year when one of its panels decided to deny a claim on the equitable basis of laches, which is basically delaying for no good reason to bring an action thus prejudicing the Respondent Domain Holder. Here, like WIPO, there was a substantial increase in the number of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking findings. See http://HallOfShame.com for a complete list.

Here are the Top Ten Panelists for the 6 months ending December 31st, 2013:

1. Hon. Neil Brown (also Number 1 on the 6 month WIPO list) – 6 Decisions – Found for the Respondent based on laches.
2. Carolyn Johnson – 4 Decisions – 1 RDNH
3. Michael Albert (also Number 7 for the year at WIPO) – 4 Decisions
4. James Carmody – 3 Decisions – Found for Respondent based on laches – 1 RDNH
5. Jonas Gulliksson – 3 Decisions – Found for Respondent based on laches
6. Richard Hill – 3 Decisions – 1 RDNH
7. John Upchurch – 3 Decisions – 1 RDNH
8. Karl Fink – 3 Decisions – 1 RDNH
9. Daniel Banks, Jr. – 3 Decisions
10. David Sorkin – 3 Decisions
Also, Diane Cabell had 1 RDNH

1. HON. NEIL BROWN (also Number 3 on WIPO year-end list) – 12 Decisions – Finding of laches – 2 RDNH
2 DEBRETT LYONS – 8 Decisions
3. CHARLES McCOTTER, JR. – 5 Decisions
4. CAROLYN JOHNSON – 5 Decisions – 3 RDNH
5. MICHAEL ALBERT (also Number 7 on WIPO list) – 5 Decisions
6. KARL FINK – 5 Decisions
7. JAMES CARMODY – 4 Decisions – laches – 1 RDNH
8. JONAS GULLIKSSON – 4 Decisions – laches
9. RICHARD HILL – 4 Decisions – 1 RDNH
10. JOHN UPCHURCH – 4 Decisions
10. DAVID SORKIN – 4 Decisions
Also, Houston Putnam Lowry had 2 RDNH, Kendal Reed, Paul DeCicco, Francine Tan and Diane Cabell had 1 RDNH each.