CircleID

Not only that, but things are probably going to get a lot uglier—a class-action lawsuit has already been filed against Registerfly and Enom, as well as ICANN:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/03/28/icann_lisbon_lawsuit_registerfly/

Enjoy. :-)

- ferg

I hope the attorneys for the victim will make public all the documents they get during the discovery process, so we can examine what role ICANN had in the matter, and help pinpoint what can be done to improve policies in the future. We need to be able to separate the facts from the PR "spin."

Would a big judgment against ICANN be a deterrent against it screwing up again?  Not AFAICT.  No one would feel a significant negative impact.  It just means domain prices will go up.  There is no accountability.  So no one will be fired or have their bonus cut or anything.  Yeah, the only deterrent I can think of is the discovery process.

This case is going nowhere.  The case documents in PACER are all about choice of venue, since the case was filed in North Carolina, but Registerfly was (is?) in Florida, eNom is in Washington, and ICANN is in California.