Domain Registration Related News
Registrars End Effort to Block Domain Name
Service
February 2005
A group of registrars suing to block a
controversial service for the back-ordering of
domain names has dropped its lawsuit, but the
service remains mired in legal disputes.
Eight registrars last year sued VeriSign Inc. and
the domain name system's main oversight body, the
ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and
Numbers), to stop the so-called wait-listing
service or WLS.
Last month, however, a California state court
dismissed the case on the request of the registrar
coalition, an attorney representing the registrars
confirmed this week.
The registrars dropped the lawsuit because of
changes in the market for registering expired
domain names, said the attorney, Derek Newman of
Newman & Newman, Attorneys at Law LLP in Seattle.
The WLS, in a process run by VeriSign, would allow
those seeking a particular domain name to pay for
the right to claim it in the event that the
current registration expires.
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