As it turns out, winning a domain arbitration case doesn't always get you the domain

Elliot’s Blog covered a story this week about a domain dispute involving wooot.com at the URDP . Although the complainant, Woot.com, won the case, it did not get the domain. What happened?

As it turns out, the URDP doesn’t necessarily always transfer the domain to the winner. In this instance, it canceled the domain, thus allowing anyone to register it.

What is the point of this policy? Woot.com went to the arbitrator to protect its brand. Now it’s in just as much danger as before because anyone, including the original registrant, could easily pick the name up before Woot. What a world we live in, huh?