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Rebuilding Iraq's Internet

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the other-side-of-war dept.

Anselm writes "According to this article at Wired.com, "The war has left Iraq's Internet infrastructure in shambles. Now, a British ISP hopes to fund the reconstruction through sales of domain names ending in .iq." While I have no use for an IQ domain, the article does make me wonder: Should geeks around the world take the lead in getting Iraq back online?"

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  1. stumbling blocks ... by Combuchan · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I think before CITRI plants their flag in Baghdad, they might want to consider the fact that somebody already owns the .iq root server.

    From linked page:

    Sponsoring Organization:

    Alani Corp.
    c/o InfoCom
    630 International Parkway
    Richardson, Texas 75081
    United States

    I'll pass up expected comment about Texans owning a chunk of Iraq... </troll>

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  2. Re:HAHAHA 0WN3D, B3330000TCH35!! by Iguanaphobic · · Score: 5, Interesting

    That has been the case since the fall of the Soviet Union and will be true for at least another decade, when China gets its legs.

    The point being, now everyone knows it. The gloves are off and the neo-cons will strike while the iron is hot. On the one hand, the U.S. denies that it intends to hit Syria and Iran next and on the other hand they're already setting up to do exactly that.

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