Dot-com – which has long been synonymous with the Internet itself – is king of domain names, and it’s also the leader in domain name disputes, as I discuss in a new video. Out of 11,799 domain names in UDRP decisions last year, 8,543 of them – or more than 72 percent of the total – were dot-coms.

A cybersquatter in two recent decisions under the Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP) registered domain names that contain the trademark “Vuity” and created websites offering to sell a new prescription eye drop that can replace reading glasses — without a prescription.

Now matter how you look at it, domain name disputes hit record numbers in 2021, and I’ve summarized all of the most important and interesting data in the fourth quarter report of GigaLaw’s Domain Dispute Digest.