GoDaddy Sues VeriSign Over Site Finder Service

[SlashRoot.Com]

Go Daddy Sues VeriSign Over Site Finder Service, Claims Misuse of Registry Position

Monday September 22, 1:03 pm ET

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz., Sept. 22 /PRNewswire/ -- Go Daddy Software, Inc. has filed a lawsuit in Federal District Court in Arizona against VeriSign Inc. (Nasdaq: VRSN - News), seeking a temporary restraining order against VeriSign's new Site Finder service, a paid-advertising page VeriSign has established on the Internet to which the traffic associated with mistyped, and other, domain names will be directed...

More details at:
http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/030922/lam075_1.html

http://investor.news.com/Engine?Account=cnet&PageName=NEWSREAD&ID=626038&Ticker=VRSN

 

[Coastalguy]

GoDaddy :kickass:

ST

 

[DuffMan]

Awesome! GoDaddy should definitely win this.

 

[SlashRoot.Com]

I move that RJ disqualifies Verislime for cheating, takes away .Com / .Net namespace from them and then entrust it to an ethical organization.

After winning the CA Gov. race, of course.

 

[painperdu]

I'm not surprised by godaddy.com's suit but I am surprised at ICANN's, VeriSign's internet b'tch, newly found gumption to stand up to the rogue corporation.

Why is the internet at the mercy of such a shady company? I remember a couple years ago someone on the
ICANNatLarge.com mailing list mention that with VeriSign in control of the root servers the DNS system could halt at the whims of VeriSign.

 

[AdoptableDomains]

Circle ID has a good summary of all the scuttle over sitefinder. They've name the special coverage "Domains Gone Wild".

http://www.circleid.com/sitefinder/

 

[Kodeking]

Serves them right!

 

[FruitFish]

Hope they win the case. It'll be a shame if they don't, Verislime will then feel invincible.

 

[dax]

nice, but i think this is just clever self-promotion campaign.
in few days expect eNom (and others) to file its own suit ...
same story like WLS.