We do need a bit of fresh air on the list....
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A64669-2000Oct12.html
An Alabama businessman has filed a class-action lawsuit accusing Network Solutions
Inc. of hoarding Internet domain names that had
legally expired, a charge that one investment bank linked to a drop in the stock price
of its parent company, VeriSign Inc.
Stan Smith, a Birmingham Internet entrepreneur, alleges that Herndon-based Network
Solutions unlawfully restrained trade when it
refused to grant him 28 expired names, his lawyer said. Smith wants to use the names
to expand his online computer-equipment
business.
Alabama lawyer Scott Powell, who represents Smith, said he suspects Network Solutions
is keeping the domain names to auction off at
a later date.
"They have no right to hoard names that should have been returned to the public,"
Powell said. "It's not theirs to auction.".....
Scott Schiller
VP
GIA Web Services, Inc.
Get your @ together!
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