ABPI Newsletter - Edition 73 - September 2025
“Celebrating the 15th anniversary of SACI-Adm is a source of pride for us and has special meaning for ABPI, which has always advocated the adoption of an extrajudicial mechanism to resolve domain-name disputes,” said Manoel J. Pereira dos Santos, President of CSD-ABPI (ABPI’s Center for Dispute Resolution), during the event “15 Years of SACI-Adm: Achievements, Challenges, and Next Steps.” The occasion also marked the launch of the book Resolução de Conflitos de Nomes de Domínio: 15 anos de SACI-Adm (Domain Name Dispute Resolution: 15 Years of SACI-Adm).
The debate “15 Years of SACI-Adm: Achievements, Challenges, and Next Steps” was organized by NIC.br and CGI.br, in partnership with ABPI and WIPO (World Intellectual Property Organization), and brought together attorneys, members of the judiciary, and representatives of national and international institutions. “SACI-Adm could serve as a model for the extrajudicial resolution of other types of disputes in the digital environment,” Pereira dos Santos noted. “The internet requires that disputes arising from online activities be resolved effectively, swiftly, and online—features that SACI-Adm already delivers.” He spoke these remarks during the panel with contributing authors to the book.
Speakers included Vinicius Pavan, Executive Secretary of CSD-ABPI, and Wilson Pinheiro Jabur, Director of CASD-ND (ABPI’s Chamber for Dispute Resolution Relating to Domain Names), who—together with Director Fernanda Varella Beser—played an active role in organizing the anniversary program as part of the group coordinated by Pedro Lana and Maria Julya Oliveira of NIC.br.
A contributing author to the commemorative volume, Wilson Pinheiro Jabur, presented the essay “SACI-Adm in Perspective: Reflections on Possible Improvements.” In the panel on “Impacts and Perspectives” for SACI-Adm, he argued that the system should be updated to apply to .br domains registered before 2010, as those domains are due for renewal. “Alternatively, a complementary procedure could be created—similar to trademark revocation for non-use—for pre-2010 .br domains that remain unused,” he added.
Created in 2011, CSD-ABPI emerged in the wake of SACI-Adm’s establishment, Pereira dos Santos explained. Of the Center’s four chambers, CASD-ND, created in 2012, was the first to begin operating. According to him, of the 654 decisions issued under SACI-Adm through 12/31/2024, CASD-ND authored 479 decisions on the merits. Of these, only 19 were challenged in court, and only four resulted in modification of the Chamber’s decision.
Looking ahead, Rodrigo Azevedo, Director of CDD-ABPI (ABPI’s Digital Law Chamber), forecast a complex landscape of new disputes in the digital sphere during the panel “Current and Future Challenges in Resolving Disputes in the Digital Environment.” He sees room to build SACI-style solutions for other segments of the digital world: “In social-media moderation, the industry itself could be interested in reducing fake news and fraud—a kind of ‘SACI’ for social networks. In e-commerce and across platforms, to avoid excessive litigation, actors could take the initiative to propose an independent, simplified mechanism with a neutral third party. Perhaps even in the context of copyright.”
The book launch also featured contributing authors Tabatha Etienne Alves, author of O Papel do SACI como Política Pública para Atração de Investimento Estrangeiro no Brasil (The Role of SACI as Public Policy to Attract Foreign Investment in Brazil), and Marcos Chucralla Blasi (CMed-ABPI), co-author—with Eduardo Medeiros Sampaio and Ana Julia de Aquino Codelo—of SACI-Adm: Avanços e Desafios Para Construção de um Ecossistema Digital ainda Mais Justo e Competitivo – a questão dos domínios inativos (SACI-Adm: Advances and Challenges Toward a Fairer and More Competitive Digital Ecosystem — The Issue of Inactive Domains). The publication brings together data and insights from specialists active across Brazil’s digital dispute-resolution ecosystem.