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Texas Company's Legal Troubles Hold .iq In Limbo

Posted by timothy on from the snafu-global-infrastructure-style dept.

aducore writes "According to The Inquirer, the (American) company running the Iraqi .iq domain name .iq is under criminal indictment and cannot transfer control. So no Iraqi organization can get a .iq domain name, including the government. Iraq's National Communications and Media Commission and the U.S. administrator in Iraq are trying to get ICANN to free up the domain."

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  1. What does this mean? by Yonkeltron · · Score: 4, Funny

    So does this mean that the Iraqi BitTorrent trackers won't be up? Now how am I supposed to download the latest episodes of "This Old Palace"???

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  2. Suggested domains by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    How about puppet.gov.iq

    1. Re:Suggested domains by StuckInSyrup · · Score: 3, Funny

      that would suggerst that there is an inteligence behind that government...

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    2. Re:Suggested domains by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny
      contact ICANN and get yourself registered for:

      www.weaponsofmassdestruction.iq
      and/or
      www.wmd.iq

      make sure you reserve your emial address:
      info@weaponsofmassdestruction.iq and
      search@weaponsofmassdestruction.iq

    3. Re:Suggested domains by skraps · · Score: 3, Funny

      Already registered. Redirects to whitehouse.gov.

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  3. Re:huh by Disevidence · · Score: 5, Funny

    Didn't you get the memo? Iraq is sovereign. Nothing of theirs is under American control.

    Pish Posh. Must of been a typo.

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  4. Should you .gov by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    It would show the true color of the current "independent" government.

  5. What a load of bullshit! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    How can some yanks hold an entire country to ransom?

    Oh wait, you call that Government in America.

  6. Bizarre by mr_tap · · Score: 2, Funny

    InfoCom got control of the domain because they sell computers and services to the middle east, but they are in trouble because they sold computers to particular countries in the middle east. On an aside, I have to stop myself typing iRaq - you can tell than I use Macs :)

    1. Re:Bizarre by Polkyb · · Score: 5, Funny

      Is an iRaq the cabinet where you keep your beowulfed iMac's?

      :-)

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    2. Re:Bizarre by Jesus_666 · · Score: 2, Funny

      So... Have you ever thought about converting to iSlam? I hear their holy text is available in six different colors.

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  7. Re:The question has to be asked... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Why was a Texan company managing the .iq domains anyhow?

    Why is a Texan with a low IQ occupying their country?

  8. Re:Michael Moore called . . . by ralmeida · · Score: 4, Funny

    And Bush just registered low.iq for his website.

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  9. Re:huh tsarkon reports communism alert by Disevidence · · Score: 4, Funny

    I was as pissed as you were when goatse.cx was taken down. Especially since it was a fellow australian who complained. God some of my countrymen/women are such absolute assholes.

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  10. Re:yes.. and let's not forget why this happened.. by cobyrne · · Score: 2, Funny

    And why why why does the media never tell us the entire story?

    It's too complicated. Don't worry - relax - we'll put the Simpsons back on shortly.

  11. Liberate ICANN by ac7xc · · Score: 2, Funny

    We should invade ICANN HQ with a squad of Marines!

  12. No! Not .com .org or .net! by OzPhIsH · · Score: 2, Funny

    Meanwhile the new government, national institutions or regular Iraqis are having to register themselves as ".com," ".org" or ".net".

    Dagnabbit! Those domains belong to God's Blessed America! Not the international community! Give em a TLD of their own that won't infringe on our territory. Perhaps .us

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    1. Re:No! Not .com .org or .net! by say · · Score: 2, Funny

      Then I guess puppet.gov and foreign.mil and propaganda.edu are going to be registered soon.

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  13. I wish they'd hurry up.. by i_want_you_to_throw_ · · Score: 5, Funny

    I am waiting to register high.iq.
    ......Stephen Hawking

  14. Re:The question has to be asked... by dpilot · · Score: 5, Funny

    In America, TEXAS messes with YOU!

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  15. This is surprising. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    This is surprising, considering how smooth and flawless the rest of the Iraq operation has been.

  16. Another star to US flag ;-) by astellar · · Score: 1, Funny

    But actually it is not a star, rather it is drop of oil ;-)

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  17. What's the fuss? by WanChan · · Score: 5, Funny

    Why doesn't the Iraqi government just use .gov? I mean, let's be realistic here...

    1. Re:What's the fuss? by a24061 · · Score: 4, Funny

      You mean *.iq.colony.gov?

  18. consistency by mabu · · Score: 2, Funny

    At least there's some comfort in knowing that ICANN's incompetence transcends political, economic and social barriers.

  19. Why, why, oh WHY... by poofmeisterp · · Score: 1, Funny

    ...did it HAVE to be Texas?

  20. Maybe they can register under .puppet by oldwarrior · · Score: 1, Funny

    until real Iraqi sovereignty is restored via elections.

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  21. Infocom... by yo303 · · Score: 2, Funny
    (C) 2004 InfoCom.
    You awake, as if from a dream.

    You are in a twisty maze of passages, all alike.
    There is a TLD here.
    There is some computer equipment here.

    >get TLD
    You now have the .iq TLD.

    >get computer equipment
    You pick up the computer equipment.

    >sell computer equipment to Libya
    You drop the .iq TLD!
    You have been eaten by a grue.
    yo.
  22. In other news by Aidtopia · · Score: 2, Funny
    In 2002, a grand jury indicted InfoCom, and its owners on charges that they exported computer equipment to Libya and Syria and funneled money to a member of the Islamic extremist group Hamas.

    In other news, the next installment in the Zork series has been delayed.

  23. ALL YOUR BASE... ;-) by fantomas · · Score: 2, Funny
    All your DNS belong to us :-)

    (sorry, somebody had to make that reference, grin..)

  24. about that by rinoid · · Score: 2, Funny

    Can't we just invade ICANN?

  25. When this domain boondoggle clears, by tietokone-olmi · · Score: 2, Funny

    The Iraq chapter of Mensa is going to have a real field day.

  26. Re:The question has to be asked... by suffe · · Score: 2, Funny

    Are we talking about the same ICANN?

    Then there is the question of defining "nonperformance".

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