<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;">If my memory serves well, most ccTLDs were delegated before ICANN was even an idea and most ccTLDs managers are in fact not been appointed by any government.<div><br></div><div>After all, Internet was, is and will be an worldwide private network.</div><div><br></div><div>Daniel</div><div><br><div><div>On 25.06.2014, at 16:45, Joly MacFie <<a href="mailto:joly@punkcast.com">joly@punkcast.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr">"ICANN licenses the TLDs to different world governments who then are permitted to appoint agents who sell the domain names and their country specific internet suffixes to individuals, businesses and organizations."<br>
<br>Is this strictly true? Does ICANN have a licence over ccTLDs?<div><br></div><div><br><div><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: inherit; background-color: rgb(240, 240, 240);"><br></span></div>
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</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jun 25, 2014 at 6:03 AM, Stephane Bortzmeyer <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bortzmeyer@internatif.org" target="_blank">bortzmeyer@internatif.org</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><a href="http://www.free-press-release.com/news-american-victims-of-terrorism-look-to-seize-iran-s-internet-licenses-domain-name-assets-1403634572.html" target="_blank">http://www.free-press-release.com/news-american-victims-of-terrorism-look-to-seize-iran-s-internet-licenses-domain-name-assets-1403634572.html</a><br>
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“The families, who hold unsatisfied American federal court judgments<br>
amounting to more than a billion dollars against the Iranian<br>
government seek to own all the ‘top-level domain’ (TLD) names provided<br>
by the US to Iran including the .ir TLD, the ایران TLD and all<br>
Internet Protocol (IP) addresses being utilized by the Iranian<br>
government and its agencies.”<br>
<br>
"The court papers have been served on the Internet Corporation for<br>
Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), an agency of the US Department of<br>
Commerce [sic] in Washington, DC, which administrator [sic again] the<br>
World Wide Web [more sic]."<br>
<br>
Most people who relayed this story only mentioned the possible seizure<br>
of the ccTLD, .IR. But the press release also mentions IP addresses,<br>
which, for Iran, are distributed through the RIPE-NCC<br>
<<a href="http://www.ripe.net/lir-services/member-support/info/list-of-members/mideast" target="_blank">http://www.ripe.net/lir-services/member-support/info/list-of-members/mideast</a>>. The<br>
RIPE-NCC was already threatened about its iranian members<br>
<<a href="http://www.ripe.net/internet-coordination/news/announcements/ripe-ncc-receives-communication-from-united-against-nuclear-iran-uani" target="_blank">http://www.ripe.net/internet-coordination/news/announcements/ripe-ncc-receives-communication-from-united-against-nuclear-iran-uani</a>><br>
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