Island Online, Inc. v. Network Solutions, Inc.

MEMORANDUM AND ORDER

TRAGER, District Judge.

In October of 1999, plaintiff Island Online (“IOL”) brought this suit, styled as a § 1983 action, against defendants Network Solutions, Inc. (“NSI”) and the National Science Foundation (“the NSF”) for damages, declaratory judgment and injunctive relief arising out of NSI’s refusal to register three Internet domain names desired by IOL. IOL contends that NSI’s policy of filtering out certain obscene domain names, coupled with NSI’s affiliation with the NSF, a government entity, constitutes a violation of IOL’s First and Fifth Amendment rights under…