VeriSign Pursues ICANN In State Court

Posted by michael on Tuesday August 31, 2004 @07:02AM from the keepings-the-lawyers-busy dept.

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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Not like SCO at all... by (H)elix1 · 2004-08-31 07:28 · Score: 1, Interesting

SCO went after IBM's legal team. Their moves could best be described as 'death by cop' thinking about how they will spend the life insurance afterwards. This is not even in the same ballpark. While Verisign may rank on the asshat scale, they really have nothing to loose by chasing this venue. They loose this, no big deal... they win, they win big until DNS servers get recoded.

We could only dream they pull a SCO...

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