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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. This Texas company... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    ...needs a good Nick Berging!

  2. I tried to come up with a quipy smart-guy comment. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I mean IQ, it's right there. But I failed it.

  3. Texas means trouble by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    at least for Iraq...

  4. Re:What does this mean? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    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"???

    You probably mean videos of amateur guy gets "beheaded"...

  5. Re:Michael Moore called . . . by idiotnot · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Clear Channel and Halliburtion, too right?

    You need to do some fucking research before you shoot your mouth off.

    CNN Story on the prosecutions. From the article, "The Bush administration froze Holy Land's assets and raided its offices in December 2001 after determining the group was aiding a terrorist organization. "

    Yeah, I'm sure they're buddy-buddy.

    And somebody modded this Interesting?

  6. Re:huh tsarkon reports Mike Moore Pig. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Hey who you calling fat? HUH?

  7. Re:huh tsarkon reports communism alert by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I like the part where australia disarmed its World War Two veterans and forced them to turn thier guns in. Your society is being held prisoner by a corrupt goverment which can capriciously seize your rights.

    Prepare to die by the needle of the state when they euthanize you after you've served your useful purpose. Australia is not longer a free country, you are being held prisoner by a corrupt and evil goverment that has a standing army that it plans to use against its own people!

  8. did i miss all the fun? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    what's this? an AC flame war? i wanna piece of that. am i too late?

    someone tells a joke. someone else has to ruin it by explaining it. and i miss out on some great name-calling. this sucks.

    1. Re:did i miss all the fun? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      nah you didn't miss anything, some poor conservative was masturbating.... geez a wonder those folks even propagate.

    2. Re:did i miss all the fun? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Through a hole in a sheet...

  9. Original Thought Follows by GypC · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    Blah blah right-wing Rumsfeld warmonger chickenhawk evil Bushies Wolwowitz and his neocon cabal for oiloiloiloiloiloil blah blah ignorant stupid bloodthirsty morons, the real axis of evil on a ranch in Crawford and blah blah blah no WMD he lied, Bushitler lied, people died died died tie-dyed peace peace peace down with the Zionists! peace peace Kyoto! they hate us they hate us they hate us and what can we do and root causes and root causes and blowback and Plame and Plame and Chalabi Plame Wilson blah blah blah unilateral multinational Halliburton Enronism crony capitalism and it's all about oiloiloiloil blah blah blah, cowboyish disregard for allies, for the wishes of the world community who rise up against us, the terrorist threat is overblown and anyway, it's all our fault because we gave Saddam his weapons to begin with, photo of Rummy and Hussein, but make no mistake, he no longer has those weapons because inspections worked, containment worked, and blah blah blah Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Sudan handle it, Roy, handle it handle it, Caspian pipeline oiloiloiloil blah blah blah show me the stockpiles, anthrax CIA plant Richard Clarke said so and we believe him because and unless unless unless Abu Ghraib Abu Ghraib Abu Ghraib, square-jawed cocksucking military jarhead torturing fucks, bring home our troops! We care about the troops! We support the troops and don't you question our patriotism our love for this fucking filthy crass consumerist bullying country of redneck dolts and biblethumping bourgeois suburbanites with their SUVs and where are the CAFE standards fight the real terror, eco-terror, Israel, the US, imperialist colonialist racist homophobic hegemonic and blah blah blah blah blah because dissent is patriotism and fighting against your country is really fighting for your country and our dissent keeps the nation strong and we're brave and heroic and up is down and black is white and oiloiloiloiloiloiloiloil blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah.(TM)

    Err, what were we talking about?

  10. wow by JeanBaptiste · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    do you write for the NY Times?

    if not, you should