ICANN moves to move VeriSign lawsuit to Paris

The Internet's governing body is trying to reroute a lawsuit that VeriSign, which has a monopoly on the master .com database, filed against it in February. The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) said Friday that it has requested that the lawsuit be moved from California state court to the International Chamber of Commerce in Paris.

VeriSign's lawsuit claims that ICANN has unfairly prevented it from adding new features--like the controversial SiteFinder utility--in violation of its contract and antitrust laws. ICANN said in a statement Friday that arbitration will yield a speedier outcome to a controversy that is "not a private dispute but one in which has a direct impact on the Internet community, which has an important stake in the outcome of these matters."

Too big for their britches

Verisign has gotten too big for their britches. They think they own the internet. Control of the master .com database should be taken away from them. They even refuse to do anything about sites they host that are scamming people. Here is what I got in reply to a Nigerian scam web site that they were hosting.

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Dear Valued Network Solutions Customer,

On November 1, 1999, a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth-Circuit ruled that Network Solutions has no responsibility or duty to police the rights of trademark owners concerning domain names.

If the domain owner in question is conducting criminal activity we would ask you to defer to either the police or the proper authorities.

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Something needs to be done about them.

JD

Too big for their britches

Verisign has gotten too big for their britches. They think they own the internet. Control of the master .com database should be taken away from them. They even refuse to do anything about sites they host that are scamming people. Here is what I got in reply to a Nigerian scam web site that they were hosting.

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Dear Valued Network Solutions Customer,

On November 1, 1999, a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth-Circuit ruled that Network Solutions has no responsibility or duty to police the rights of trademark owners concerning domain names.

If the domain owner in question is conducting criminal activity we would ask you to defer to either the police or the proper authorities.

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Something needs to be done about them.

JD