<div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Jun 24, 2012 at 11:55 PM, David Conrad <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:drc@virtualized.org" target="_blank">drc@virtualized.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div style="word-wrap:break-word">Parminder,<div><br><div>[snip]<br></div></div></div></blockquote><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
<div style="word-wrap:break-word"><div><div></div><div>And yet, despite those sanctions being in place long before the DNS (or the Internet existed), root zone changes for Cuba have not gone unprocessed. Nor have root zone changes for North Korea. Or Sudan. Or Libya. Or Iran. Or Syria. Or Iraq. Etc.</div>
<br></div></div></blockquote><div>Here is a case:<br><br><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.iq">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.iq</a><br><br><a href="http://www.zdnet.fr/actualites/l-irak-recupere-son-nom-de-domaine-iq-39251115.htm&ei=MJLnT4GlJsLJtAaBoPWzAQ&usg=AFQjCNE0TtX4nCSYC27pefzhQD-smYtflg">http://www.zdnet.fr/actualites/l-irak-recupere-son-nom-de-domaine-iq-39251115.htm&ei=MJLnT4GlJsLJtAaBoPWzAQ&usg=AFQjCNE0TtX4nCSYC27pefzhQD-smYtflg</a><br>
<br>English translation:<br><br>« Iraq gets back its domain name .Iq<br><br>by the editor, ZDNet France. Published Monday, August 8, 2005<br>Tags: Internet, Politics, Domain Names,<br><br>- ICANN has just returned to Iraq the management of its domain name - the ".Iq". The international body responsible for regulating the domain name system (DNS) has entrusted the task to the National Iraqi Communications and Media Commission (NCMC).<br>
<br>The [Irak] government organization claimed .Iq for more than a year, but Icann believed the country too unstable to do it. It validated the request at a recent meeting, saying "acting in the best interest of local and global Internet communities."<br>
<br>Since 1997 .Iq belonged to the Texas company InfoCom, which was responsible for its management until 2002. Date on which ICANN suspended the domain name, after several company executives were suspected of having links with Hamas, considered a terrorist organization by U.S. authorities.<br>
<br>The management change will allow the Iraqi government to standardize its e-mail and web addresses. »<br><br>Louis<br><br></div></div>