Whether ICANN officially acknowledges the existence of domain front-running, the international organization is named in a class-action lawsuit against Network Solutions. The litigants architecting the suit claim ICANN’s return policy allowed Network Solutions to register searched-for domains and then raise the price.

A new class action lawsuit has made some serious allegations against Yahoo: the company supposedly lied to investors about its “defective” search advertising technology and its odds against Google.  That’s bad enough, but Yahoo’s legal team may be in for a tough fight for another reason, as well.