Text mining 23 years of UDRP decisions
By Research Team
DNSRF is proud to have funded four featured articles in the recent special issue of the Chatham House Journal of Cyber Policy, Volume 8, Issue 2 (2023) Over the next few weeks, we will be focusing on the various articles.
Professor Derrick Cogburn, Theodore Andrew Ochieng, and Haiman M. Wong explore global ‘private ordering’ in ICANN’s Uniform Domain-Name Dispute-Resolution Policy (UDRP) using text mining and analysis on the DNSRF DAP.LIVE platform.
This article analysed textual data from 75,590 UDRP complaints involving 142,423 domain names and examined three questions: to what extent does the UDRP process differ between resolution bodies? What are the most prevalent themes as represented by keywords and topics? To what extent have these topics changed over time?
Derrick Cogburn is a professor at the American University, along with his team of researchers Theodore Andrew Ochieng and Haiman M. Wong.
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