ICANN vs. Alternate DNSs To Be Tested

Masem writes: "Yahoo news is reporting that a legal challege to ICANN's control on the DNS system is going to be pushed by Atlantic Root, a group that has been controlling the .biz domain (as given to them by the Open Root Server Confederation) since May. When ICANN issued the 7 new TLDs, they did recognize that there were alternative DNS systems out there and tried to avoid obvious conflicts (one reason why .web wasn't granted). However, Atlantic Root argues that ICANN willing knew about the alternate .biz when they made their ruling, and are only representing big businesses in their practices."