Second Lawsuit Filed Against ICANN (and VeriSign)

penciling_in writes "CircleID reports on a second lawsuit filed against ICANN and VeriSign. 'Newman & Newman, the law firm representing an ad hoc coalition of ICANN-accredited domain name registrars, has filed a lawsuit today against ICANN and VeriSign to Stop 'Anti-Consumer, Anti-Competitive' Wait List Service Implementation.' According to the report, "The complaint attacks ICANN and VeriSign based on 1) Unfair Trade Practices Act Violations; 2) Violation of California Business & Professions Code; 3) Unlawful Tying Arrangement; 4) Attempted Monopolization; 5) Violation of Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act; 6) Intentional Interference with Prospective Economic Advantage; 7) Breach of Contract; and 8) Declaratory Relief." Also a related website launched at fightwls.com."

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Re:Conflict of interest

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I'm not 100% sure that it was Verisign (I think it might have been Network Solutions, which is part of Verisign now anyways, but whatever) but a little while ago, if memory serves me accurate, weren't they wanting to change DNS so that if you typed in a site that didn't exist (e.g. www.ThisWebsiteDoesNotExist.com), it would access their nameservers and provide search results, essentially making them own any domain that isn't registered? This way, they could serve up ads and sell their own "services". As I remember, it didn't go over too well in the Internet community. I'll try to find some linkys and reply back.