The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers struck back Nov. 30 against an antitrust and trademark lawsuit filed by name.space Inc., the operator of an alternative domain naming system, in a motion to dismiss filed in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California (Name.space Inc. v. Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers).
ICANN argued that the lawsuit is barred under a release the plaintiff signed when it submitted a proof-of-concept application for new top-level domains to ICANN in 2000.
“Specifically, name.space acknowledged that it had ‘no legally enforceable right’ in any TLD and ...
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