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VeriSign Inc. is selling its Network Solutions business, which provides Internet domain name registrations, to Pivotal Private Equity for approximately $100 million so it can focus on infrastructure services. VeriSign gained Network Solutions' registrar and registry businesses when it purchased the company in 2000. The registrar business, which offers services such as business e-mail, Web sites, hosting and Web presence, will go to Pivotal Private Equity, the company said Thursday. VeriSign will retain the registry business, which provides the backbone for the .com and .net domain names. VeriSign recently renamed the registry business VeriSign Naming and Directory Services and...

WASHINGTON--Federal police have adopted a novel crime-fighting tactic: seizing control of the domain names of Web sites it claims are engaging in illegal activity. Attorney General John Ashcroft said Monday that the domain names for several Web sites allegedly set up to sell illegal "drug paraphernalia" would be pointed at servers located at the Drug Enforcement Administration. A federal judge in Pittsburgh granted the U.S. Department of Justice permission to do so until a trial can take place, the government said. Wednesday afternoon, the DOJ said it had taken over the iSoNews.com domain, whose owner pleaded guilty to felony copyright...

Feb. 7, 2003 Appeals Court Upholds Right of Online Critic to Use Shopping Mall's Name in Domain Name Dallas Web Designer Did Not Confuse Internet Users, Infringe on Trademark in Fan Site, Gripe Sites WASHINGTON, D.C. - In a ringing affirmation of free speech rights on the Internet, a federal appeals court has upheld the right of a Dallas man to use the name of a local shopping mall as the domain name for a Web site singing the praises of that mall, as well as a second Web site denouncing the mall's owner for suing him under the federal...

I come to bury IAmCarbonatedMilk.com, not to praise itFrom BuyClamsOnline.com to billromanowskisucks.com, a stroll through the graveyard of defunct domain names offers a melancholy vision of monumentally stupid hopes that were cruelly dashed. By Heather CochranAug. 5, 2002It's late afternoon, you're thinking about dinner, and you realize it's been a long while since you enjoyed some shellfish. Do you (a) head to the seafood section of your supermarket and ask the clerk how fresh the clams are or (b) sign on to BuyClamsOnline.com? I'm going to go out on a limb and guess that you chose Curtain No. 1. Fact...

UDRPlaw.net        UDRP PracticeCenter  The Domain Name Dispute Resolution Legal Information Site About Site UDRP Decisions WHOIS Archives News Features SGBDC UDRPlaw.net Internet News Split Panel Denies TedTurner.com Case Revised July 18, 2002, 5:15 pm By Patrick L. JonesWASHINGTON, DC- According to a three-member panel decision released by WIPO today, media mogul Ted Turner lost his UDRP case against the registrant of TedTurner.com.While the Panel agreed that the domain name had been registered in bad faith, it stated that Turner did not have common law rights in his name as a trademark. The Panel cited to the recent Jerry Falwell decision...

By Kieren McCarthy Posted: 07/18/2002 at 02:01 EST VeriSign is attempting to push through a proposal which will effectively see one company control .com and .net Internet domain names, despite huge opposition from everyone else in the market. Under its proposals, a new domain "wait listing service" (WLS) will be set up that supersedes all other domain renewal services and run by one company, SnapNames, with which Verisign has a close relationship. Under the plan, anyone will be able to pay SnapNames $35 to "reserve" a particular .com or .net domain name were it not to be renewed. VeriSign claims...

Montana senator says U.S. should control Internet bodyhttp://www.philly.com/mld/philly/business/technology/3446305.htmWASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. senator said he would try to rein in the group that oversees the Internet's traffic system, calling for a more direct U.S. government role in the ostensibly international and independent body.Sen. Conrad Burns, a Montana Republican, Monday said he likely would introduce a bill to require the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, also known by its acronym ICANN, to give the U.S. government more influence in managing the domain-name system. The system would let Internet users navigate the Web with easy-to-remember names like ''www.example.com.''If ICANN...

After years of pretty good service with what is now VeriSign, I switched to GoDaddy.Com for my domain name registration. Mainly because GoDaddy.Com charged $6.95 per year for 10 years registration when (at that time) the current company was $35 per year. Since I own several domain names, the cost is somewhat significant. While checking my accounts, I noticed the above posted warning but didn't give it much thought. Until yesterday. That's when I received a "warning" in the U.S. Mail that 3 of my domain names were about to expire and to give my credit card number to the...