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14 July 2010

VeriSign faces competition allegations

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.




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