Less than half a year after
Verisign was forced to remove wildcards for .com and .net domains and
rumblings of their intention to reinstate the dodgy service are being heard again. Verisign was coerced by ICANN to stop the sitefinder service - which was deemed by many to be an unfair use of Verisign's unique position as the owner of the TLD's .com and .net to generate extra advertising revenue from users arriving at the sitefinder website after mistyping .com and .net domain names.
Now in a bizarre a and somewhat ironic twist of fate,
Verisign is suing ICANN saying 'ICANN overstepped its contractual authority and improperly attempted to regulate VeriSign's business in violation of its charter and its agreements with VeriSign.'. Smacks of the pot calling the kettle black eh?
EDIT: The story goes on and on... just read over on /. that a lawsuit is now being filed against BOTH ICANN and Verisign for their plans to introduce a Wait List Service (basically a back-ordering service so you can pay to have a domain name watched and as soon as it expires it's registered in your name). Why on earth people find this proposal anti-competitive is beyond me... a number of other companies (123-reg, godaddy and they're just the two registrars I use!) already provide this service...
