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Verisign's Lawsuit Against ICANN Dismissed

Posted by michael on from the too-bad-so-sad dept.

emtboy9 writes "Internet domain name registry VeriSign just can't seem to convince anyone that redirecting misspelled Web addresses to its own site is a good thing. A federal district court judge on Thursday threw out VeriSign's legal arguments that ICANN's ban on this tactic amounted to a violation of U.S. antitrust law. VeriSign, which runs the master database for .com and .net addresses, had argued that its competitors had succeeded in stymying VeriSign's plans for its Site Finder service by providing advice to the board of directors of ICANN, or the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers."

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  1. Like it really matters.... by Vampyre_Dark · · Score: 0, Troll


    Had they won this case, SCO would have claimed ownership of Verizon and took it down anyways. It's a "serivce"(ha) so damn bad, that even intarweb surfers can come up with 15 techy reasons why it sucks.

    Had there been a better judge, Verizon would have had to give up on .com and hand it over to someone half competant, and in it's place they would get control over .pwned.