Yesterday Judge Michael J. Davis of the United States District Court of Minnesota released a 22 page decision, Vonage Holdings Corporation, Civil No. 03-5287 (MJD/JGL) Plaintiff, v. The Minnesota Public Utilities Commission, following his October 8 bench ruling. From the Judge’s summary: “Plaintiff Vonage Holdings Corporation (“Vonage“) provides a service that permits voice communications over… Continue Reading
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VeriSign Announces Sale of Network Solutions and Possible Re-Launch of Site Finder
From VeriSign’s press release: “VeriSign, Inc, the leading provider of critical infrastructure services for the Internet and telecommunications networks, today announced it has signed a definitive agreement to sell the Network Solutions business unit to Pivotal Private Equity. Under the terms of the agreement, VeriSign will receive approximately $100 million…” The company will retain its… Continue Reading
Consumer Report on Online Car Rentals
A new Consumer WebWatch report: Renting Cars Online: An Analysis of the Potential Benefits and Challenges of Booking Through a Car Rental Web Site. Continue Reading
Microsoft and Amazon in New E-Commerce Collaboration
Microsoft Partners With Amazon: “The Amazon service will enable users to make purchases without launching a browser or leaving their Office document, presentation or email message. Users will also be able to take data from Amazon, such as book information for footnotes and bibliographies, and embed it in their documents.” Continue Reading
VeriSign Challenges ICANN Over Site Finder Closure
From dc.internet.com: “VeriSign says it will hold the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) “fully accountable” for its actions in forcing the .com and .net registrar to close its controversial Site Finder service. Editorial statement by VeriSign Senior VP Mark McLaughlin on the benefits of innovative e-commerce services. See also VeriSign Complies with… Continue Reading
Research on Blocking of Site Finder Service
Technical Responses to Unilateral Internet Authority: The Deployment of VeriSign “Site Finder” and ISP Response. Continue Reading
VeriSign Complies with ICANN Demand to Close Site Finder
VeriSign’s introduction of its Site Finder service on September 15 ignited a firestorm of controversy. Today ICANN President and CEO Paul Twomey sent a letter to VeriSign’s Executive VP Russell Lewis stating: “VeriSign must suspend the changes to the .com and .net top-level domains introduced on 15 September 2003 by 6:00 PM PDT on 4… Continue Reading
Study on Impact of Tax Moratorium on States
From the Multistate Tax Commission, a new report issued September 24: Revenue Impact on State and Local Government of Permanent Extension of the Tax Moratorium Act See also my September 17 posting, House Votes to Continue Internet Tax Moratorium Continue Reading
Network Solutions Settles With FTC On Deceptive Marketing Charges
False Solicitations Allegedly Duped Consumers to Transfer Domain Name: FTC v. Network Solutions, Inc., doing business as VeriSign Registrar (Civil Action No.: 03 1907), U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia Stipulated Final Order for Permanent Injunction. Continue Reading
VeriSign’s Controversial Site Finder Service
The Controversy Over New Web Typo Site continues as ICANN issued an Advisory Concerning VeriSign’s Deployment of DNS Wildcard Service, requesting that pending the organization’s review and publication of a report, VeriSign suspend this service. In addition to ICANN’s action, last Friday Popular Enterprises, parent of search engine Nester.com, filed an unfair trade practices lawsuit… Continue Reading
House Votes to Continue Internet Tax Moratorium
H.R. 49, to permanently extend the moratorium enacted by the Internet Tax Freedom Act, passed the House by voice vote today. For related information, see this Internetnews.com article. Continue Reading
Controversy Over New Web Typo Site
Yesterday came news that VeriSign had launched a new service that redirects users who mistype urls of websites (apparently at the rate of 20 million times per day) to Site Finder, which in turn markets the availability of these mistyped .com or .net domains. A Slashdot posting provided this link to a pdf document on… Continue Reading
