VeriSign faces competition allegations
14 July 2010
Fionn O'Raghallaigh, London
The .com registry operator VeriSign will face an antitrust lawsuit after an appeals court in San Francisco overturned a previous decision by a lower court
On July 9 the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit reversed a previous decision by the district court in San Francisco in case brought by the so-called Coalition for Icann Transparency (CFIT) against the operator of the .com and .net top-level domains VeriSign.
The decision means that VeriSign will now have to answer the non-profit organisation CFIT's, allegations that VeriSign, in conjunction with Icann, conspired to restrain trade in .com and .net...
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