ICANN wins round one
p2pnet.net News:- ICANN has won round one against domain VeriSign in a case alleging interference with the launch of a new VeriSign service.
“The Internet Corp for Assigned Names and Numbers said yesterday that it has succeeded in persuading a judge to essentially dismiss an antitrust lawsuit filed against it by VeriSign Inc, the company that describes ICANN as its ‘de facto regulator’,” says a Computer Business Review story here, going on:
“ICANN general counsel John Jeffrey told ComputerWire that the judge dismissed the first of seven claims in VeriSign’s complaint, which was filed in February. VeriSign has until June 7 to rewrite and re-file the complaint, he said.”
Working the ICANN process, “is like being nibbled to death by ducks,” says Tom Galvin, VeriSign vp for government relations.
VeriSign’s Site Finder, which intercepted misspelled .com lookups and sent browsers to its own pages, caused controversy last September when it was turned on with no consultation with internet stakeholders, adds Computer Business Review.
