Fwd: [ NNSquad ] Full Text of Manwin Lawsuit Against ICANN / ICM re .XXX

[Joly MacFie]

I picked a couple more juicy ones from this
story<http://www.xbiz.com/news/news_piece.php?id=141106>
:

The two adult studio plaintiffs also contend that ICANN, which oversees the
> Internet, provided "no competitive process for the award of the .XXX
> registry contract."
>


> "[ICM Registry CEO] Stuart Lawley has announced that he expects to  be
> able (and intends) to prevent the establishment of any other (potentially
> competing) adult-content TLDs, including through a contractual promise by
> ICANN not to approve such TLDs,"


Researching I did notice that there was a somewhat similar antitrust case
filed against ICANN and Verisign in 2005.
 http://wadnd.com/Complaint(ver4).pdf

I don't think that one got too far.

j

On Fri, Nov 18, 2011 at 3:03 PM, Nuno Garcia <ngarcia at ngarcia.net> wrote:

> I can find a couple of points where I think their argument doesn't hold.
> If I was an ICANN attorney, I would enjoy preparing this case :)
>
>
> On 18 November 2011 19:55, Nicolas Adam <nickolas.adam at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>  I have some choice quote below. Any comment on the merit of Manwin's
>> case?
>>
>> Nicolas
>>
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