Regarding the "Open Directory Project" owned by Netscape, Inc.

The open directory is the second most popular directory search engine
available (the most popular is "Yahoo"). It is critical to
businesses that wish to compete on the internet that their web sites
be listed in this directory, but the Open Directory is not, in fact,
open. It is controlled by a small group of people who dictate what
you will and will not see in the directory—not based on any objective
qualification but on this group's personal opinions. No reasons for
rejection in the directory are ever sent, and even if a business
owner's web site is of a higher quality or is regarded better than
other similar entries in the directory there is no recourse, there is
no way to modify a web site to gain acceptance in the directory.

Because this directory is owned by Netscape, and advertises itself
as "open", and because a listing in this directory has a serious
financial impact on eCommerce web sites (certainly hundreds of
millions of dollars if not more if they are *not* listed) I am
bringing this matter to the Department of Justice's attention.

The open directory project is located at www.dmoz.com and it provides
listing information for several other huge companies including AOL.