A federal judge has denied a request for a temporary restraining ...
A federal judge has denied a request for a temporary restraining order (TRO) against ICANN sought by the Coalition for ICANN Transparency (CFIT) and moved on to consider a preliminary injunction. The TRO application, filed in U.S. Dist. Court,…
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San Jose was an attempt to block the proposed settlement of a long-standing dispute between ICANN and VeriSign over .com domain registry services (WID Nov 30 p1), ICANN said. Judge Ronald Whyte found that CFIT didn’t meet the standards for a TRO because the group couldn’t show the need for immediate relief was clear. That’s because ICANN told the court it didn’t plan to act on the VeriSign agreement soon. In its response to CFIT’s TRO request, ICANN said the agenda for the Vancouver meetings never said the corporation’s board would take action on the settlement this week -- it merely stated that the board would meet Sun. The agenda for that meeting doesn’t include a vote on the VeriSign settlement or the proposed .com deal, ICANN said. CFIT attorney Jesse Markham said it was only a few days before the meeting that ICANN’s Kurt Pritz reportedly announced the VeriSign deal wouldn’t be on the board’s agenda this week. ICANN’s board doesn’t have any more regular meetings scheduled for 2005 but one could be called on a week’s notice, he said in a court filing. Since that means a vote on the .com registry could occur as soon as next week, Markham asked ICANN’s lawyers to promise CFIT that won’t occur. Should the documents eventually be approved by the board, the deal would then have to be okayed by the Commerce Dept “and there is no way to predict how long that would take,” ICANN said in its court papers. The group continues to seek comment on the proposed agreement for the duration of the Vancouver conference. Whyte set a hearing for Feb. 10. ICANN officials said there had been no developments in a lawsuit filed the same day in the same court by the World Assn. of Domain Name Developers.