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NSI antitrust suit dismissed

Posted by Hemos on from the appeal-appeal-appeal dept.

/ writes "A federal appeals court (DC) has dismissed charges that NSI and the NSF violated antitrust laws. This overturns last year's lower-court ruling that the NSI illegally collected $46 million in dns registration fees on behalf of the NSF. "

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  1. Re:International agency needed by Paradox+!-) · · Score: 2

    'Course, ICANN is theoretically International, as is ISOC, IETF...etc.

  2. International agency needed by Bocephus · · Score: 2

    There needs to be an impartial international agency that handles all this stuff. (Lord only knows that the UN, with its emphasis on "intellectual property protection," isn't it.) I like capitalism, but it sure breaks down when the government hands monopolies to unethical companies.

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    "Even genius needs a competent technique."--Robert Fripp
  3. NSI stealing our money by Gary+Franczyk · · Score: 2

    Its amazing how long this blatant theft of our money has been going on. Its so obvious to anyone with a clear mind that what they have been doing is totally illegal.
    At least they did the right thing eventually.

  4. I have 6 domain registrations pending... by skander · · Score: 3

    ... and now I've lost all hope that it may ever get better...

    NSI is the biggest pile of bureaucracy I've ever come accross... they copy/paste from the license agreement when you ask for help, their database registration process is very buggy...

    How can you even trust an organisation like that with so much power over the net??

    what a shame... a true shame.

    1. Re:I have 6 domain registrations pending... by CodeShark · · Score: 2

      I feel for you, as I am in the same situation, though with less registrations in the pipe.

      I'm curious as to how long have they been pending, so I will might know roughly how long my on-hold hell is going to last.

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      ...Open Source isn't the only answer -- but it's almost always a better value than the alternatives...
  5. Re:Uhh, wrong. by / · · Score: 2

    Congratulations, it was considered illegal by the lower court in question. But when CNN says The entire suit was eventually dismissed, however, and the plaintiffs appealed. and previously says that A federal appeals court last week dismissed charges that the National Science Foundation and its private contractor, Network Solutions Inc. (NSI), violated antitrust laws and overcharged Internet domain name registrants. you'll see your error. Please have a good day.

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    "If one is really a superior person, the fact is likely to leak out without too much assistance" -- John Andrew Holmes
  6. NSI isn't out of hot water yet... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4

    Fear not! Those incompetant idiots at NSI may have dodged this bullet, but there are two more on the way:

    1. NSI is under suspicion for securities fraud for having claimed in their prospectus for their Initial Public Offering (IPO) of stock that they owned .com, which they obviously do not.

    2. The new Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) now owns the "root" of the DNS, and is in the process of setting up a shared registry system. This means that NSI will not be the only company through which you can register a domain name, and given this competition, it is unlikely that NSI will survive, because they are incompetant.

    In short, NSI is still facing their well deserved doom.