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ICANN Sued by VeriSign

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Keith Teare
May 03, 2016
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ICANN — the body whose job it is to coordinate control of the Internet’s naming and numbering systems — has recently been making decisions that many feel fall outside of it’s authority. Now, VeriSign, which has the contract to run .com and .net top level domains as a Registry operator, is suing ICANN, alleging it has overstepped it’s rights under the co…

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