Register.com V. Verio

Register.com v. Verio, 356 F.3d 393 (2d Cir. 2004), was a decision of the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit that addressed several issues relevant to Internet law, such as browse wrap licensing, trespass to servers, and enforcement of the policies of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). The decision upheld the ruling of a lower court which prevented a provider of web development services from automatically harvesting publicly available registration data from a domain name registrar’s servers for advertising purposes.