[council] Fwd: EU commision examines .com contract

[Mawaki Chango]

FYI

--- Iliya Nickelt <iliya at GMX.DE> wrote:

> Date:         Tue, 7 Mar 2006 09:31:05 +0100
> From:         Iliya Nickelt <iliya at GMX.DE>
> Subject: EU commision examines .com contract
> To:           NCUC-DISCUSS at LISTSERV.SYR.EDU
> 
> FYI: A speaker from the competition directorate of the EU
> commission 
> (http://europa.eu.int/comm/competition) has confirmed that they are
> 
> examining the ICANN verisign .com contract, apparently stimulated
> by 
> CFIT. I don't think it has been widely noticed yet, as this
> interesting 
> bit of info was researched by Monika Ermert from heise and the
> article is 
> published in German.
> (http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/70352). I 
> did not find any comment at the eu site. Investigation does not
> mean that 
> they will take any steps, of course, but still interesting.
> 
> 	--iliya
>