[LINK] domain name lawsuit

[Jan Whitaker]

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New challenge for domain names


                  By JERI CLAUSING
                  NEW YORK
                  Tuesday 27 June 2000

                  Already low on cash and facing heavy criticism from 
international
                  groups, the Internet's administrative body has been 
served with what is
                  believed to be its first lawsuit challenging its work.

                  The suit was filed by a New York company denied entrance 
to the
                  lucrative business of registering Internet addresses, or 
domain names.

                  The company, Afternic.com, which runs a website in which 
people who
                  already own domain names can resell them, filed the suit 
against the
                  Internet Corp for Assigned Names and Numbers, or Icann, 
earlier this
                  month.

                  The company says Icann violated its bylaws in refusing to 
approve
                  Afternic's application to become an accredited primary 
registrar for
                  Internet addresses.

http://theage.com.au/bus/20000627/A35142-2000Jun26.html

Jan
JLWhitaker Associates
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
jwhit@primenet.com  --  http://www.primenet.com/~jwhit/whitentr.htm