Image Online Design sues ICANN
The confrontation between owners of alternative domain name systems and ICANN continues to grow. An example of Name.Space , which is going to sue 189 top-level domains from ICANN, was followed by Image Online Design.
Image Online Design - the creator of an alternative DNS in which there is a .WEB zone, it currently hosts about 20,000 second-level domains. The company, as well as Name.Space, filed an application with ICANN for registration of the .WEB domain as early as 2000 and has not yet received a clear answer about the refusal of registration. According to lawyers, ICANN has no right to consider applications for a new domain from other applicants, as long as the application of 2000, for which Image Online Design paid $ 50,000, remains in force.
According to the rules of ICANN, those who applied for a top-level domain in 2000 can expect a discount: they will have to pay not only 185,000, but “only” $ 99,000 for a new application in the framework of the new gTLD program. But Image Online Design does not like this option: in this case, the company will have to compete on an equal footing with six other applicants for .WEB.
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Image Online Design in its lawsuit draws attention to the fact that in 2000, ICANN itself indirectly recognized the company's rights to the .WEB domain. The then-chairman of the ICANN Board of Directors, Screw Cerf, spoke out against applications for .WEB from Afilias and other bidders on the grounds that this domain exists in an alternate DNS running Image Online Design.
Like Name.Space, Image Online Design mentions a “conflict of interest” in ICANN. The current chairman and vice chair of the ICANN Board of Directors, Steve Crocker and Bruce Tonkin, collaborate with Afilias, and Vint Cerf collaborated with Google. Both of these companies claim the .WEB domain, and their interests are promoted in ICANN, which contributes to both the laws and the ICANN bylaws.
Image Online Design - the creator of an alternative DNS in which there is a .WEB zone, it currently hosts about 20,000 second-level domains. The company, as well as Name.Space, filed an application with ICANN for registration of the .WEB domain as early as 2000 and has not yet received a clear answer about the refusal of registration. According to lawyers, ICANN has no right to consider applications for a new domain from other applicants, as long as the application of 2000, for which Image Online Design paid $ 50,000, remains in force.
According to the rules of ICANN, those who applied for a top-level domain in 2000 can expect a discount: they will have to pay not only 185,000, but “only” $ 99,000 for a new application in the framework of the new gTLD program. But Image Online Design does not like this option: in this case, the company will have to compete on an equal footing with six other applicants for .WEB.
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Image Online Design in its lawsuit draws attention to the fact that in 2000, ICANN itself indirectly recognized the company's rights to the .WEB domain. The then-chairman of the ICANN Board of Directors, Screw Cerf, spoke out against applications for .WEB from Afilias and other bidders on the grounds that this domain exists in an alternate DNS running Image Online Design.
Like Name.Space, Image Online Design mentions a “conflict of interest” in ICANN. The current chairman and vice chair of the ICANN Board of Directors, Steve Crocker and Bruce Tonkin, collaborate with Afilias, and Vint Cerf collaborated with Google. Both of these companies claim the .WEB domain, and their interests are promoted in ICANN, which contributes to both the laws and the ICANN bylaws.
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/155349/
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