¡¡¡¡BEIJING, February 28 (Xinhuanet) -- A new center to settle disputes over Internet domain names will be launched Thursday by two chief arbitration institutions, the Beijing-based China International Economic and Trade Arbitration Commission and the Hongkong International Arbitration Center.

¡¡¡¡The Asian Domain Name Dispute Resolution Center is the first dispute-resolution service provider in Asia authorized by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers to administer and provide neutral ground for disputes alleging registration abuses in the use of Internet domain names, according to Thursday's China Daily.

¡¡¡¡The center is to provide a dispute-resolution service for disputed generic top-level domain names such as .com, .net and .org, according to Neil Kaplan, chairman of the Hong Kong arbitration center.

¡¡¡¡The Asian domain-name center provides a web-based on-line domain dispute-resolution system, which is designed to help resolve disputes at a very economical cost.

¡¡¡¡The center, which has branches in Beijing and Hongkong is one of only four approved dispute-resolution centers in the world, twoof the others being in the United States, one in Geneva, Switzerland. Some 7,000 disputes over top-level domains have been settled by the other three centers. Enditem

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