Article Discussion: Hurry Up and Wait List

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), a well-known Internet governing body, just approved a request by VeriSign to start up a 12-month trial of a Wait Listing Service for domain names. VeriSign should be willing to wait for Department of Commerce approval; after all, it's been working with ICANN for the past two years to hammer out all the details of the service. Okay, granted, the domain name registrar got a little impatient back in late February of this year and filed a lawsuit against ICANN in an attempt to convince ICANN to let VeriSign go ahead with the wait listing service already -- but hey, what's a little lawsuit in the name of progress, right?


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