WIPO stats for Q1 2013: UDRP complaints down, average number of domains per case up, .com domains 62% of cases

I checked the WIPO stats for the 1st quarter of 2013 and found that UDRP complaints have slowed down while the average number of domain names per case has increased.

Usually the first 2 quartes of the year have the most UDRP complaints filed but Q1 2013 had the lowest number of complaints of all 2012 quarters.

	2012	2013
Q1	763	651
Q2	762
Q3	658
Q4	701

2013 started with a lot of complaints but it gradually ended up to one of the lowest numbers for March ever.

	2012	2013
January	192	251
February	271	216
March	300	184

The average number of domain names per case has gone up significantly reaching more than 3 domain names per case in 2013:

Year	Average Number of Domain Names per Case
1999	1.00
2000	2.02
2001	1.58
2002	1.69
2003	1.61
2004	2.21
2005	2.27
2006	1.54
2007	1.64
2008	1.70
2009	2.22
2010	1.62
2011	1.73
2012	1.76
2013	3.06

In 2012 75% of the domains were .com while in 2013 the number has dropped to 62%. .Net, .org and .info have seen great increase:

2013
.com    1417    61.64%
.net    327    14.22%
.org    269    11.70%
.info    228    9.92%

2012
.com    3475    74.84%
.net    487    10.49%
.org    322    6.94%
.info    264    5.69%

There has not been a single .xxx UDRP complaint in WIPO in 2013 after 16 complaints in 2012.

In ccTLDs .nl lost first place to .co and that shows the growing popularity of the .co.

2013
ccTLDs    Number of Domain Names
.co    21
.nl    20
.es    15
.au    13
.mx    11

2012
ccTLDs    Number of Domain Names
.nl    103
.au    55
.es    53
.ch    53
.co    47

While the percentage of the denied complaints is pretty much stable, the percentage of cancelled domains has decreased even more:

2013
Outcome	Number of Cases	Percentage
Cancellation	2	0.88%
Transfer	206	90.35%
Complaint denied	20	8.77%
2012
Outcome	Number of Cases	Percentage
Cancellation	64	2.84%
Transfer	1985	88.07%
Complaint denied	205	9.09%

The WIPO Arbitration and Mediation Center published its 2012 review on “Internet Domain Name Dispute Resolution”. In 2012, trademark holders filed a record 2,884 cybersquatting cases covering 5,084 Internet domain names with the WIPO Center under procedures based on the Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP). This represents an increase of 4.5% over the record established in 2011.