VeriSign Pursues ICANN In State Court

Saeed al-Sahaf writes "Like a page out of the SCO how-to book, in the wake of its legal loss in U.S. District Court, VeriSign is moving on to attack ICANN in California's Los Angeles Superior Court. It's the same old story from VeriSign, and they seem intent on dragging it out. 'ICANN's unjustified and overreaching efforts over a three-year period to regulate services that VeriSign offers to registrars and domain name registrants ... has delayed and otherwise impeded the introduction of new services by VeriSign,' the company alleges in its filing. Funny, I have several active and inactive domains at VeriSign, and I can't remember being 'offered' these 'services'. I think most people would have declined such an 'offer'."

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ICANN is.

[tao_of_biology]

Check out this URL, for an explanation of what ICANN is and more. But briefly, it states:

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) is responsible for managing and coordinating the Domain Name System (DNS) to ensure that every address is unique and that all users of the Internet can find all valid addresses. It does this by overseeing the distribution of unique IP addresses and domain names. It also ensures that each domain name maps to the correct IP address.

ICANN is also responsible for accrediting the domain name registrars. "Accredit" means to identify and set minimum standards for the performance of registration functions, to recognize persons or entities meeting those standards, and to enter into an accreditation agreement that sets forth the rules and procedures applicable to the provision of Registrar Services.

According to this link, Verisign has control of .com until 2007, and must put up .net up for bid in late 2006. I believe they don't currently control .org, but I might be wrong.

I assume if Verisign violated their contract with ICANN in some way, their control over .com and .net could be revoked.