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Network Solutions hit with suit By Margie Wylie March 20, 1997, 3:45 p.m. PT [...] PGP Media this morning filed a suit in a New York court alleging that the partially government-funded Network Solutions has conspired with several other Internet groups to set up artificial barriers to competition in the selling of Internet domain names and maintain monopoly control of the market. The International Ad Hoc Committee, the Internet Assigned Names Authority (IANA) and its director, Jon Postel, the Internet Society (ISOC), and unnamed "control persons" are named as "nonparty coconspirators" in the complaint. According to the complaint, which has not yet been formally served on Network Solutions, the company is using its historical control of Internet "root servers" to preclude competition in domain name service. Root servers are computers that act like switchboard operators, matching up familiar network names, like "cnet.com" with the location of that Net resource, like a Web site, email server, or gopher server. [...] PGP Media's own domain naming service, called name.space, can't operate on the Internet without access to the config file on the Internet's official root servers. The company is asking that the court force Network Solutions to list name.space's top-level domains, such as ".camera," in the official root servers in addition to minimum damages of $1 million. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
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