Wooot the Hell?
I was looking through a UDRP decision today regarding the domain name Wooot.com, which was filed by the company that owns the popular Woot website. It didn’t seem like a real surprise that the company won the decision, but the result of the decision was pretty surprising.
Having established all three elements required under the ICANN Policy, the Panel concludes that relief shall be GRANTED.
Accordingly, it is Ordered that the <wooot.com> domain name be CANCELLED
Instead of giving the domain name to the complainant (which happens almost all of the time when a UDRP case is won, the panelist (Hon Nelson A Diaz (ret.)) opted to cancel the domain name instead. To make things even stranger, there was no reasoning supplied by the panelist for doing this.
I hope the complainant is good at catching drops – or they don’t get this panelist on the next go-round if it’s picked up by another party.
Thanks to George for the tip.
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Comments (9)
Drewbert
April 22nd, 2010 at 2:40 pm
The cut & paste UDRP factory strikes again.
Andrew
April 22nd, 2010 at 3:11 pm
Also happened in the recent bibi.com case against Future Media Architects.
andrew
April 22nd, 2010 at 3:30 pm
Now that I’ve read through the full decision, this is clearly a cut and paste job. Sentences stop in the middle of no where, it references a completely different domain name, etc. The panelist should be reprimanded.
chandan
April 23rd, 2010 at 12:50 am
that panelist may not know abt domain cancellationn and transfer
Adam
April 23rd, 2010 at 2:10 am
The NAF should just dump him. This is appalling.
Domain Name Wire » News » Seriously, Wooot the Hell? - The Domain Industry's News Source
April 23rd, 2010 at 12:23 pm
[...] Elliot Silver wrote a post about the UDRP decision for Wooot.com. The panelist found in the complainant’s favor, but ordered the domain name canceled rather [...]
George Kirikos
April 23rd, 2010 at 2:02 pm
The story turns out to be even deeper:
http://www.circleid.com/posts/20100423_naf_copying_pasting_nonsense_into_udrp_decisions/
NAF and ICANN need to do some explaining, whey there has been such systematic copying/pasting of nonsense.
Did UDRP Decision Get Revision After Publication Without Notification? | Elliot's Blog
June 16th, 2010 at 12:29 pm
[...] pertaining to the Wooot.com UDRP decision that has reportedly been revised after publication. I initially wrote about the decision because I found it strange that the domain name was canceled by the panelist, and Andrew [...]
Wooot.com: Canceled Domain Now on NameJet | Elliot's Blog
June 30th, 2010 at 12:59 pm
[...] Canceled Domain Now on NameJet In April, I wrote an article about the Wooot.com UDRP that was filed by the company behind the popular Woot.com website. Surprisingly to me, the UDRP [...]
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