The United States is reported to have similar complaints about NSI's agreements with new domain registrars.
Yet ICANN is proving itself incapable of creating a workable alternative, and NSI meanwhile remains firmly in control.
The development of the shared registry system that ended NSI's exclusive registration franchise allowed the use of longer names.
Doctors named in the NSI suit previously have refused to provide such raw data or have taken the Fifth Amendment against self-incrimination.
The Internet's DNS, the key to readable Net addresses, has long been administered by a single government contractor, Network Solutions Inc. (NSI).
The National Statistic Institute (NSI) says the number of residents dropped by almost 206, 000 to 47.1m - the decline entirely accounted for by foreigners.
The NSI case also comes after much damaging evidence emerged in a lawsuit over silicosis, a similar industrial disease caused by inhaling silica particles.
The NSI lawsuit alleges physicians changed their diagnosis from asbestosis to silicosis--essentially negating the basis for the prior asbestos payment--after being paid by lawyers to do so.
In either case, NSI recognizes the user as the direct owner of the domain name, which can be used to establish a company's online brand through URLs and e-mail addresses.
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If NSI can obtain all the data on the screening programs, particularly data from easily manipulated lung-function tests, Brickman said, it might be able to prove a coordinated scheme to extract fraudulent settlements.
"ICANN is largely dominated by a handful of inside players who have long-standing involvement in the Internet's infrastructure, " says Don Tel-age, a senior vice president of Network Solutions, Inc. (NSI), the Herndon, Va.
But more intriguing are the unnamed "John Doe" defendants, presumably plaintiff lawyers who paid the experts and may get drawn into the suit if NSI gets a court's permission to dredge through client records.
While the new regime ends NSI's monopoly over the award of top-level domain names, the Commission is concerned that highly restrictive provisions in its licensing agreements with companies wanting to enter the market for domain-name registration will discourage competition.
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