[governance] "[...] to seize Iran's Internet licenses & domain name assets"

[Stephane Bortzmeyer]

http://www.free-press-release.com/news-american-victims-of-terrorism-look-to-seize-iran-s-internet-licenses-domain-name-assets-1403634572.html

“The families, who hold unsatisfied American federal court judgments
amounting to more than a billion dollars against the Iranian
government seek to own all the ‘top-level domain’ (TLD) names provided
by the US to Iran including the .ir TLD, the ایران TLD and all
Internet Protocol (IP) addresses being utilized by the Iranian
government and its agencies.”

"The court papers have been served on the Internet Corporation for
Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), an agency of the US Department of
Commerce [sic] in Washington, DC, which administrator [sic again] the
World Wide Web [more sic]."

Most people who relayed this story only mentioned the possible seizure
of the ccTLD, .IR. But the press release also mentions IP addresses,
which, for Iran, are distributed through the RIPE-NCC
<http://www.ripe.net/lir-services/member-support/info/list-of-members/mideast>. The
RIPE-NCC was already threatened about its iranian members
<http://www.ripe.net/internet-coordination/news/announcements/ripe-ncc-receives-communication-from-united-against-nuclear-iran-uani>


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