[governance] People's Daily of China: US must hand over Internet control to the world

[Norbert Bollow]

Adam Peake <ajp at glocom.ac.jp> wrote:
> I don't think ICANN/IANA did anything. The ccTLD was already a mess
> <http://www.theregister.co.uk/2003/04/09/iraq_its_domain/>

I think it is clear that IANA did something: The ccTLD was redelegated.
http://www.iana.org/reports/2005/iq-report-05aug2005.pdf

The question is whether the implied accusation holds water that .iq
websites were harmed by the concerned actions of the US government (in
arresting the person in charge of the TLD without arranging for
continuity of the TLD) and IANA (in redelegating the TLD).

And I think that this question boils down to whether there were
actually any .iq websites at the time when the ccTLD operator was
arrested. 

Greetings,
Norbert

> 
> Adam
> 
> 
> 
> On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 5:48 PM, Norbert Bollow <nb at bollow.ch> wrote:
> > Rebecca MacKinnon <rebecca.mackinnon at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> A shot across the bow from China's government mouthpiece...
> >>
> >> http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/90777/7915248.html
> >>  (People's Daily Online <http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/>
> >> ) 11:10, August 18, 2012
> >> <http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/90777/7915248.html#>
> >>   <http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/90777/7915248.html#>
> >>
> >>> During the Iraq War, the U.S. government in 2003 asked ICANN to
> >>> terminate services relating to Iraq’s top-level domain name “.iq”
> >>> and then all websites with the domainname “.iq” disappeared
> >>> overnight.
> >
> > Did any such websites exist at the time of the redelegation?
> >
> > Greetings,
> > Norbert
> >
> >
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