[governance] Anti-Trust Complaint Filed Against ICANN, Registerfly and Enom

[John Levine]

>I agree with you on absence of overt conspiracy part.  However,
>respected legal academics have looked at the ICANN situation and have
>concluded that there are substantial questions regarding the legality
>of ICANN as a place in which competitors and affected economic
>interests (trademark owners) gather to shape the marketplace;
>determine products, terms of sale, and prices; and decide what
>newcomers get the privilege of being vendors in that marketplace -
>i.e. a combination in restraint of trade.

I wouldn't disagree.  But that would be a rather different suit, filed
by someone like .XXX who followed all the rules to become a registry
and was turned down anyway, not two yokels in Alabama with a complaint
against Registerfly.

R's,
John
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