Name.Space has sued ICANN over some of the proposed new top-level domains. Name.Space implies that ICANN is infringing its trademarks, saying that the company's "insiders" and "industry titans" conspired to hinder competition. The company has filed a lawsuit against 189 proposed new gTLDs.
Name.Space is an alternative root player, operating 482 TLDs that are generally inaccessible to the most part of the public as the user needs to opt-in by adding certain DNS servers to the DNS list.
In 2000, the company has submitted an application for 118 top-level domains to ICANN. As the lawsuit says, ICANN has accepted a payment of $50,000, but didn't make a final decision on the application. If the company had applied for its 118 TLDs again, it would have to pay around $22 million.
189 of the top-level domains that Name.Space is operating in the alternative root are matching some of the new gTLDs, applied for by several companies, that currently await approval. In the suit, Name.Space asks for damages and an injunction to prevent ICANN delegating these domains.
These matching domains include .bank, .help, .radio, .sex, .sports, .software, .email, .family, .mail, .news as well as many others.
