VeriSign and ICANN Settle Lawsuit

[Dave_Z]

http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/051024/sfm134.html?.v=15

VeriSign, Inc. (Nasdaq: VRSN - News), the leading provider of intelligent infrastructure services for Internet and telecommunications networks, today announced it has reached agreement to settle its lawsuit with the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN).

VeriSign and ICANN reached an agreement that strikes the important balance of providing business certainty for VeriSign and other registry operators while ensuring that ICANN can play an effective and clearly established role as technical coordinator.

News not yet posted in ICANN's site, although it's also reportered here:
http://www.circleid.com/posts/verisign_and_icann_settle_lawsuit/

Don't expect them to sit on a tree together, of course. :D

 

[wasistdas]

I dont think it is the happy end. ICANN will try it once more, later.

 

[Dave_Z]

Ah, finally found an update on ICANN's website:

http://www.icann.org/announcements/announcement-24oct05.htm

One drawback to this, however, is they've allowed Verisign to retain the .com
registry:

http://www.icann.org/tlds/agreements/verisign/com-registry-agreement-22sep05.pdf

Damn.

 

[Hostnetric]

Have to see how this plays out in a few months now.