Mashable is reporting that "Network Solutions and ICANN Named in Class Action Lawsuit". It's about time. My business partner and I were victims of this dubious practice by Network Solutions not too long ago. It cost us money. At this time as each domain we have left on Network Solutions comes up for renewal we've been transferring them to my Go Daddy reseller service Cheap Available Domains.
"Just a few days ago, according to reports from Ars Technica, a panel put Network Solutions up for questioning for allegations of domain frontrunning. Frontrunning is the practice in which users would look up a domain name via the registration-site WHOIS, and would appear available, but every other internet registrar would show the names as unavailable, and registered to Network Solutions, thus forcing the user to purchase the domain from them."