<p dir="ltr">This looks serious, what is icann saying about it?</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Jun 25, 2014 12:05 PM, "Stephane Bortzmeyer" <<a href="mailto:bortzmeyer@internatif.org">bortzmeyer@internatif.org</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><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>
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"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>
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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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