Name.space sends lawsuit against ICANN over fresh TLDs to Court of Appeals

Firm that offers domain names in alternative root pushes forward with legal challenge.

Alternative root firm name.space isn’t letting its beef with ICANN die just yet.

The firm has filed an appeal (pdf) with the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit following its suit against ICANN was tossed out by a lower court last month.

Name.space offers domain names in an alternate root, and applied to ICANN in 2000 to add 118 of its domains to the “real” root.

In October it sued ICANN asking for damages and an injunction against approving any fresh TLDs that are the same as domain names it right now offers. Some of the domains it offers are .online, .blog, and .africa.

Last month the United States District Court for the Central District of California granted ICANN’s motion to dismiss.

name.space, Inc.’s opening brief isn’t due until September, by which time the first fresh top level domains may by now be available on the internet.