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ICANN sent Verisign a strongly worded letter. Verisign stopped, but then sued ICANN and they settled a few years later.


Verisign sued ICANN! Why? What’s the full story?


> VeriSign had sued ICANN, accusing the regulatory group that oversees the Internet's technical infrastructure of overstepping its contractual authority and dragging its feet on allowing VeriSign to offer new services such as a wait-list service and internationalized domain names. In the lawsuit, VeriSign claimed that ICANN stepped outside its charter by delaying the introduction of new VeriSign services, including its Site Finder service, which redirects requests for nonexistent Web addresses, and its ConsoliDate service, which manages multiple domains. VeriSign claimed that ICANN cost the company money because of its tactics

Details here:

https://www.computerworld.com/article/2560283/icann-revises-...


I love how they characterize blatant abuse as "services".


Here is the ICANN archive of documents related to SiteFinder.

https://archive.icann.org/en/topics/wildcard-history.html

In the end it resulted in what ICANN now calls the RSEP process.

https://www.icann.org/resources/pages/rsep-2014-02-19-en




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