Domain-name Dispute Resolution
Disputes relating to registered .rs domains are resolved before the Committee for the Resolution of Disputes Relating to the Registration of .rs Domains. The Committee is based at the Serbian Chamber of Commerce, Resavska 15, Belgrade.
In submitting an application for the registration of an .rs domain, and hence accepting the General Terms, the registrant accepts the authority of the Committee for the Resolution of Disputes. The plaintiff accepts the authority of the Committee for the Resolution of Disputes Relating to the Registration of .rs Domains by initiating proceedings before the Committee. By accepting the authority of the Committee, the parties in the proceedings do not relinquish rights to recourse to the courts in the matter at hand.
RNIDS and the Serbian Chamber of Commerce, according to established international practice, approach the resolution of any disputes arising regarding rights to registered .rs domains through a committee-based process. This approach is a faster, cheaper and more effective process of dispute resolution as compared to bringing those processes before a court. The entire procedure is governed by the Rules of Procedure for Proceedings for the Resolution of Disputes Relating to the Registration of .rs Domains.
An Arbitration Council considers and determines whether in registering and using an .rs domain, the registered holder has violated rights to intellectual property or some other subjective right of the plaintiff, in accordance with the provisions of the Rules of Procedure. The proceedings are initiated with the submission of charges on the part of the plaintiff or his or her legal representative.
The first member of the Arbitration Council is named by the plaintiff, who when submitting his or her charges supplies a list with the names of three arbiters from the list of arbiters. The Committee chairs assign the plaintiff the first available arbiter from the list supplied. The second member of the Arbitration Council is named by the registrant, who in his or her response to the charges supplies a list with the names of three arbiters from the list of arbiters. The Committee chairs assign the registrant the first available arbiter from the list supplied. The third member of the Arbitration Council is chosen by agreement of the elected arbiters from the list of arbiters.
The arbitration procedure lasts, as a rule, 60 days from the day of submission of the charges. The arbitration decision is final and no appeal can be lodged against it. The decision of the Arbitration Council shall be enacted upon the expiry of ten days from the day of receipt of the decision by RNIDS, except in the event that a party to the proceedings has submitted proof of initiation of proceedings before the competent court, in which case enactment of the decision is postponed until the decision of the court enters into force.
List of documents governing the arbitration procedure (only in Serbian:
1. Rules of Procedure for Proceedings for the Resolution of Disputes Relating to the Registration of .rs Domains
2. List of arbiters
Useful addresses relating to the matter of arbitration in the resolution of disputes relating to Internet domains:
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