ICANN "Disappointed" by Lawsuit Filed by VeriSign

The nonprofit organization with the task of overseeing the core function of the Internet said that it was "disappointed" by a lawsuit filed by VeriSign, which operates the master database for .com and .net. Mountain View, Calif.-based VeriSign sued the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) in federal court in Los Angeles, claiming it was unlawfully prevented from adding new features to the domain name database it has a contract to run.