Re: [ga] Thoughts/question on the WLS

[William X Walsh <william@wxsoft.info>]

Friday, July 12, 2002, 9:31:47 AM, Bret Fausett wrote:

> The registrars have already tacitly agreed that not all anticompetitive acts
> taken by those under contract with ICANN are ICANN's responsibility to sort
> out. Take, for example, the recent actions by registrars and registrants
> against Verisign's direct mail renewal/transfer campaign.

An entirely different issue. In this case, Verisign actually broke the
law, and in fact the US Postal Service opened an investigation against
Verisign for mail fraud after receiving a flood of complaints from
consumers.

ICANN's responsibility is to promote competition.  That doesn't mean
that they are deciding if a particular action is legal under antitrust
laws, etc.  ICANN can decide something is anticompetitive which is not
necessary unlawful.

> Tucows was just
> sued for defamation (http://comingsoon.tucows.com/.court_case//) by a
> competitor.

Said competitor is not an accredited registrar, and is not under
contract to ICANN.

-- 
Best regards,
William X Walsh <william@wxsoft.info>
--
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