The group empowered with overseeing administration of Internet domain names and addresses has asked a federal court judge to dismiss antitrust and breach-of-contract claims leveled against it by VeriSign, which runs the registry for two of the most popular top-level domain extensions on the Internet — .com and .net. In an acerbic motion filed in U.S. District Court in Los Angeles, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) argued that VeriSign, in its own filing with the court, failed to submit sufficient facts to support an antitrust case against ICANN.
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ICANN Seeks To Dismiss VeriSign Antitrust Claims
Posted by: John P. Mello Jr. April 8, 2004 08:18 AMThe group empowered with overseeing administration of Internet domain names and addresses has asked a federal court judge to dismiss antitrust and breach-of-contract claims leveled against it by VeriSign, which runs the registry for two of the most popular top-level domain extensions on the Internet — .com and .net. In an acerbic motion filed in U.S. District Court in Los Angeles, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) argued that VeriSign, in its own filing with the court, failed to submit sufficient facts to support an antitrust case against ICANN.