VeriSign Sues ICANN, Focusing on "Site Finder" Service

A long-simmering dispute between the two organizations that control the way Internet domain names and addresses are run became public, after VeriSign filed a lawsuit claiming it had unlawfully been prevented from adding new features to .com and .net. The suit, filed in the central district of California, claims that the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has transformed itself over the last six years from a modest technical coordinating body into the "de facto regulator of the domain name system."