CFIT Complaint Against ICANN Dismissed

[Dave Zan]

http://icann.org/announcements/announcement-11dec06.htm

Last Friday, 8 December 2006, United States' Federal District Court Judge Ronald M. Whyte dismissed, for a second time, an antitrust complaint filed by CFIT against ICANN. The strongly worded 22-page Order from Judge Whyte stems from CFIT's allegations challenging ICANN and VeriSign entering into the most recent .NET and .COM Agreements. Judge Whyte held that "[m] ere extension of VeriSign's lawful appointment as the sole registry operator does not constitute an antitrust violation".

Supposedly the decision:

http://icann.org/legal/cfit-v-icann/order-on-cfit-08dec06.pdf