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June 20, 2002 — (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Domain name registrar Go Daddy Software, Inc. (GoDaddy.com) announced on Thursday that it has reached the objective it sought in its lawsuit against its leading competitor VeriSign (VeriSign.com), when an Arizona Federal Judge entered a stipulated order prohibiting VeriSign from sending its domain name expiration notices to its customers.
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By signing the stipulation, VeriSign agrees not only to stop sending the controversial notices to Go Daddy?s customers, but to the customers of all other registrars as well.
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The ?expiration notices,? sent to the customers of a number of registrars, reportedly misled customers with ?reply by? dates that had no correlation to the actual expiry dates of the customers domains.
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Domain Registrar BulkRegister filed a similar lawsuit against VeriSign in May, winning a preliminary injunction stopping the company from sending the notices to BulkRegister customers.
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In a statement, Go Daddy said it brought the matter to court after VeriSign did not respond to two formal requests that it stop sending the mailings to Go Daddy customers.
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“Go Daddy is pleased with the order,” said Bob Parsons, Go Daddy founder and president. “It puts an immediate end to VeriSign’s deceptive mailings and all domain name owners will benefit from the agreement. It is our hope that this order will send a strong message to anyone in this industry contemplating the use of such dubious marketing tactics to clean up their act.”
