PGP Media Sues To Open the Domain Name Registration Market.NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 20, 1997--PGP Media, Inc., d/b/a name.space(tm) (http://namespace.pgpmedia.com) ("PGP (Pretty Good Privacy) A data encryption program from PGP Corporation, Palo Alto, CA (www.pgp.com). Published as freeware in 1991 and widely used around the world for encrypting e-mail messages and securing files, PGP is available for commercial use and as freeware for "), announces that it has commenced an action in Federal District Court in the Southern District of New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of (97 Civ. 1946(RPP RPP Report on Plans and Priorities RPP Registered Pension Plan RPP Regulated Price Plan (Ontario Energy Board) RPP Rate Pressure Product RPP Registered Polarity Practitioner (elemental reflexology) )) against Network Solutions, Inc. ("NSI See Network Solutions. NSI - Network Solutions, Inc. "), seeking, among other things, to open access to the domain name registration market allowing open and unrestricted competition for the offering of Domain Name registration services under potentially limitless Shared Top Level Domains. PGP believes that the Internet has long since become a vibrant and maturing market in which certain de facto monopolists, including NSI, operating for profit, have been allowed to flout flout v. flout·ed, flout·ing, flouts v.tr. To show contempt for; scorn: flout a law; behavior that flouted convention. See Usage Note at flaunt. v.intr. the laws of the United States and other countries which are expressly aimed at preventing such conduct. A copy of the Complaint in that action will be available on the name.space(tm) web page referred to above. PGP offers Domain Name registrations under an expansive list of Shared TLDs. An initial registration under a TLD (Top Level Domain) The highest level domain category in the Internet domain naming system. There are two types: the generic top level domains (gTLDs) such as .com, .org, and .net, and the country codes, such as .ca, .uk and .jp. See gTLD and Internet domain name. listed on the name.space(tm) web page may be made for $10. When, as a result of the lawsuit or otherwise, the names registered become universally resolvable and the PGP Nameservers become "root," an additional charge of $15 will be imposed to fully register the name for the first full year of use following such universal resolvability. PGP intends to charge a $25 renewal fee for each subsequent year of use of names registered through its registry. In addition, PGP is also accepting suggestions for additional Shared TLDs to be added to the PGP Registry. The fee which will be charged for such additional Shared TLDs has not yet been determined. For additional information regarding the lawsuit or to receive regular updates, please contact mjd@pgpmedia.com. CONTACT: Michael Donovan, 212/219-1415 REPEATS: New York 212-752-9600 or 800-221-2462; Boston 617-236-4266 or |
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