United States Ninth Circuit

In an antitrust action claiming that Defendant, which acts as the sole operator of the ".com" and ".net" domain name registries, set artificially high prices for those domain names, the dismissal of the complaint is reversed where the complaint properly alleged: 1) a conspiracy between Defendant and ICANN; and 2) that the prices set in their agreement was anticompetitive.

Appellate Information

• Argued 12/08/2008
• Decided 06/05/2009
• Published 06/05/2009

Judges

• SCHROEDER, Circuit Judge:, Before: MARY M. SCHROEDER, A. WALLACE TASHIMA and WILLIAM A. FLETCHER, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Bret A. Fausett, Los Angeles, CA, for the plaintiff-appellant., Dennis M. Hart, Washington, DC, for amicus curiae Internet Commerce Association.


• For Appellees:
  
• Ronald L. Johnston, Los Angeles, CA, for defendant-appellee.