J.J. Larrea on Tue, 11 Mar 97 01:34 MET |
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nettime: FYI: The registry promoting ".web" sues IANA and IAHC |
..The registry promoting ".web" sues IANA and IAHC On Thursday Image Online Design, Inc., filed a lawsuit alleging breach of contract against the Internet Assigned Numbers Agency and the ad-hoc committee created by the IANA to rework the way domain names are assigned. You can read coverage of the suit at News.com [1] or browse the text of the suit itself on IOD's site [2]. IOD has been running a registry for names ending in .web under authority granted by the IANA. The company claims that a verbal agreement with the IANA to award it permanent proprietorship of .web was breached when the International Ad Hoc Committee promulgated its final recom- mendations [3]. Under the IAHC plan, .web would be placed in a lot- tery along with the six other new top-level domains. [1] <URL:http://www.news.com/News/Item/0%2C4%2C8375%2C00.html> [2] <URL:http://www.iodesign.com/complaint.html> [3] <URL:http://www.tbtf.com/archive/02-11-97.html#s01> -- * distributed via nettime-l : no commercial use without permission * <nettime> is a closed moderated mailinglist for net criticism, * collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets * more info: majordomo@is.in-berlin.de and "info nettime" in the msg body * URL: http://www.desk.nl/~nettime/ contact: nettime-owner@is.in-berlin.de