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OT: The lawsuits to verisign being.. 100 Million
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (netmask)
Thu Sep 18 21:16:15 2003
Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2003 20:11:54 -0500 (CDT)
From: netmask <netmask@enZotech.net>
To: nanog@merit.edu
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
I thought it might be relevant.. The legal wars have also begun:
Popular Enterprises Files $100 Million Lawsuit against VeriSign Inc.
The Complaint alleges antitrust violations, unfair competition and violations
of the Deceptive and Unfair Trade Practices Act based upon VeriSign's release
of the http://sitefinder.verisign.com product.
According to Popular Enterprises, the "Sitefinder" service allows VeriSign to
monopolize unregistered ".com" and ".net" domains, and to profit by
redirecting all Internet traffic for these sites to pay-for-placement sites
controlled by VeriSign. If they are allowed to operate Sitefinder, VeriSign
will now profit from Internet traffic directed to all unregistered domain
names, including thousands of domain names that VeriSign has refused to allow
the public to register.
.........
http://home.businesswire.com/portal/site/google/index.jsp?epi-content=GENERIC&newsId=20030918005730&headlineSearchConfigBO=1063933200000%201063949537000%20%20groupByDate%20%201%20-4%201063933200000%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%201000151%20true%20true%20&newsLang=en&beanID=478837757&viewID=news_view
-netmask
