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Re: ICANN and Verisign settle over SiteFinder
From: "Michael Froomkin - U.Miami School of Law" <froomkin () law miami edu>
Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2005 15:15:20 -0400 (EDT)
they get a back-door amendment to their contract, with no public process, that extends it and allows them to charge more in the future
On Tue, 25 Oct 2005, Florian Weimer wrote:
* Chris Woodfield:Said the flowerpot: "Oh no, not again..." http://www.businessweek.com/ap/financialnews/D8DEL2TO7.htm? campaign_id=apn_tech_down&chan=tcI don't understand what VeriSign receives in return for their kowtow (under the agreement, they basically waive any right to criticize ICANN's role). Two possible explanations: * ICANN signalled a positive outcome of a future Sitefinder review under the new process. * ICANN promised to grant VeriSign the DNSSEC root and .ARPA maintenance without tender (the "Root Server Management Transition Agreement" goes into that direction; actually, the .ARPA stuff is the interesting one). * VeriSign has recognized that they couldn't win in court, and suddenly want to play nice.
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Current thread:
- ICANN and Verisign settle over SiteFinder Chris Woodfield (Oct 24)
- Re: ICANN and Verisign settle over SiteFinder Florian Weimer (Oct 24)
- Re: ICANN and Verisign settle over SiteFinder william(at)elan.net (Oct 25)
- Re: ICANN and Verisign settle over SiteFinder Florian Weimer (Oct 25)
- Re: ICANN and Verisign settle over SiteFinder Todd Vierling (Oct 25)
- Re: ICANN and Verisign settle over SiteFinder william(at)elan.net (Oct 25)
- Re: ICANN and Verisign settle over SiteFinder John Levine (Oct 25)
- Re: ICANN and Verisign settle over SiteFinder Michael Froomkin - U.Miami School of Law (Oct 27)
- Re: ICANN and Verisign settle over SiteFinder Florian Weimer (Oct 24)