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

Tue Aug 21 15:06:30 EDT 2012

David,

On 21/08/2012 20:08, David Conrad wrote:
> Norbert,
>
> On Aug 21, 2012, at 6:24 AM, Norbert Bollow <nb at bollow.ch> wrote:
>> 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. 
> I'm not sure whether there were .iq websites is relevant. I believe the operative question is whether or not the USG directed IANA to do anything to the .IQ domain.  As far as I am aware, they did not.
>
>
>

From memory, I think you are absolutely right. Iraq never had a thriving
Internet industry:
http://www.nsrc.org/db/lookup/report.php?id=1078938114138:488695109&fromISO=IQ

In fact, one of the earliest times of Internet connectivity was only a
few years earlier:
http://www.nsrc.org/db/lookup/report.php?id=1002154924195:488669636&fromISO=IQ

When the war started, there was a main ISP called uruklink.net and a
couple of smaller ones connected by satellite.

Bombing, not ICANN, took them off-line.
http://www.salon.com/2003/03/31/iraq_offline/

Kind regards,

Olivier

-- 
Olivier MJ Crépin-Leblond, PhD
http://www.gih.com/ocl.html

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