World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) has issued its annual release about how many cybersquatting cases it heard under UDRP and similar policies

In 2018, a record of 3,447 cases have been filed by the trademark owners under the Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP) with WIPO’s Arbitration and Mediation Center. the number of domains involved was only the third highest, of the 5,665 domains involved, 5022 were gTLDs and 633 were ccTLDs. In 2019, the number of cases is expected to rise again due to the GDPR regulations.