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Links: Did ICANN Over Regulate VeriSign?
Posted by Ernest Miller on Monday, March 29 @ 20:56:35 EST
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Anonymous writes "CircleID recently interviewed Jonathan Weinberg, Professor of Law at Wayne State University to discuss legal and regulatory issues that have been raised against Internet Corporation For Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). VeriSign, the registry operator of the two most popular top-level domains .com and .net, filed a lawsuit against ICANN on February 26, 2004 complaining that the Internet regulatory body has extended "its authority beyond the scope of its contracts". Did ICANN cross its contractual boundaries? To what extent does ICANN's contract limit its technical coordination functions and how much of a threat does VeriSign's lawsuit impose? Jonathan Weinberg explains... "
 
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by Anonymous on Tuesday, March 30 @ 15:46:39 EST
Considering that Verisign did this unilaterally, and to give themselves a leg up on all the other registrars, and that they broke all manner of programs which depend on them adhering to the specifications which dictate that they MUST give the response RCODE 3 (NXDOMAIN) when the domain does not actually exist, Verisign is 100% wrong. They positively deserve to be stripped of their status as a registrar for their abhorrant behavior. If anything, they have been under-regulated, given how many slimy tactics they have fostered and all the unfair competition they have engaged in (the wildcard/sitefinder being a prime example thereof).

So in short, in my oppinion as a techie and not a laywer, no. No, they have not been over-regulated. ICANN is certainly no angel, but Verisign has shown us that things could yet be worse.


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  • Re: No. by Anonymous on Tuesday, March 30 @ 15:56:22 EST

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