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

[Katim S. Touray]

Stephane,

I have to say, this really made me laugh, even though it is not a laughing
matter. I'll leave it at that.

Katim



On Wed, Jun 25, 2014 at 10:03 AM, Stephane Bortzmeyer <
bortzmeyer at internatif.org> wrote:

>
> 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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