The UDRP was adopted by ICANN on 26 August 1999. Implementation began when the final policy documents were approved on 24 October 1999.

 

The UDRP applies to the global top-level domains: .aero, .biz, .com, .coop, .info, .museum, .name, .net, and .org. The UDRP does not apply to country-code top-level domains, except in a few cases where the local administrator has decided to adopt it.