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Iraq TLD In Legal Limbo
tcd004 writes "FP Magazine is reporting that despite the fact that Iraq has been a sovereign nation for some 15 months its top-level Internet domain, .iq, has been in a legal limbo. Until now, ICANN has refused to hand over control of the TLD due to the nation's instability." From the article: "But one Baghdad political insider says that the imbroglio is likely to end 'imminently'--possibly by the time this magazine hits newsstands--with ICANN handing over .iq to the new government. It's unclear why ICANN may reverse its earlier decision, whether it be from mounting political pressure or a different position on the legitimacy of the new Iraqi regime. The organization refused repeated requests for comment. But officials affiliated with the Iraqi government indicate they expect the domain's return soon."
Iraq has been a "sovereign nation" for considerably longer than 15 months.
ICANN is using Iraq's political mess as an excuse.
We all know they just want to sell the tld to the highest bidder so it could be used by organizations such as mensa.
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Given the current situation in Iraq I think it's actually more likely to be "fanat.iq"...
UNIX? They're not even circumcised! Savages!
How can a country be too unstable to use a TLD? Is the TLD going to run amok, strap some viruses around itself and nuke some other unsuspecting nearby TLD like .kw or .ae?
Sounds idiotic to me. Or, more likely, like some country doesn't want Iraquis to be able to express their opinions attached to the official domain of the country.
ad logicam Claiming a proposition is false because it was presented as the conclusion of a fallacious argument.
Procrastination -- because good things come to those who wait.
This is a tech news site. If you want the "Hard" news about the cleanup after Katrina or the problems in Iraq, news.google.com has a bunch of nice links. You can also go to the website of CNN, MSNBC, or the BBC for information on the less tech news out there.
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Perhaps they're waiting to see if the name gets changed in the next few months. It'd be embarrasing to release the TLD .iq if it should instead be iq.us
I have heard it said that in order to go anywhere, one must leave the place where he is and arrive somewhere else.
Athletic Scholarships to universities make as much sense as academic scholarships to sports teams.
Right, because there are no other online news sources with anything on Katrina/NOLA or Iraq. Because cnn.com, headlinenews.com, msnbc.com, etc. just don't exist any more.
Because when I think about news stories that might have a significant non-geek factor, the first news site that pops to mind is slashdot.
Get a little perspective. I don't like the stories about any flavour of BSD, but I don't bitch about it when they post them on the front page.
Kierthos
Mr. Hu is not a ninja.
/me puts helmet while the ones racing for test.iq pass him (wonder what that tells about their intelligence... ;) )
One that hath name thou can not otter
The article says it might be resolved by the time people read this. I guess it was right. Now what do we talk about.
Ooo man the floppy drive is broken. No wait. The computer is just upside down.
"FP Magazine is reporting that despite the fact that Iraq has been a sovereign nation for some 15 months its top-level Internet domain, .iq, has been in a legal limbo. "
Since when is there a First Post Magazine?
The entire country is in "legal limbo". One little invasion can ruin an entire legal system. And then leave a vacuum where the country should be, for years.
Just this week, the Iraq Constitution talks collapsed. That can delay legal niceties like domain names, and even smaller details like ending the civil war.
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Would those be the ones who don't use preview and proofread their posts?
There are doubtless folks at ICANN who hope that the new Iraq-CAN'T. Those folks would doubtless like to avoid legitimizing the Iraqi governement, with the only little power they have, awarding domains.
.iq TLD to Iraq is a little dig at George Bush. They know they have to do it eventually, unless the terrorists and factions manage to destabilize the new government.
Also, recall the flap over the USA keeping control over the root servers? Not awarding the
Bureaucrats also hate to make a mistake.
They appear to have realized finally that they were for no good reason failing to perform their primary function.
Raise your children as if you were teaching them to raise your grandchildren, because you are.
It's kind of cool that they're asking for the domain back as a sovereign part of their nation. It's kind of weird in the sense that a name space is just some abstract string of data. On the other hand, certain combinations of characters in the domain is given the same or similar status or importance as a piece of land. How times have changed... and it will only become more so over time.
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see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sovereign_nation
Seems like Iraq is now, and has been for some time, a De jure sovereign nation.
However its not quite a de facto sovereign nation.
Note: I'm not commenting on the legitimacy of the merging of the three provinces of Mosul, Baghdad, and Basra to form modern Iraq by the British in 1918. That is a thread of its own, and not a subject I'm too familiar with.
--Barry
Since when is it ICANN's job to decide whether or not a sovereign government is "legitimate" or not? Is this just another ICANN power trip?
Gotta run with it....
chronicles-of-ridd.iq
mensa.iq
sub100.iq
[1] Well, all about speculation about something that will have already occured by the time you read it.
.iq to the new government."
.iq has not been made available to Iraq, and why reassignment has been problematic:
http://forums.hostmysite.com/about228.html
.iq reassignment:
http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/new s/editorial/12314495.htm
l ?articleID=167600327
From the summary: "But one Baghdad political insider says that the imbroglio is likely to end 'imminently'--possibly by the time this magazine hits newsstands--with ICANN handing over
I have to commend the article writer, the submitter, and the editors for giving us 'news' that is obviously (obviously as in noted in the article summary) outdated. When an article tells you itself that it is outdated, that's a really, really big hint that some more research is in order before the article gets submitted and/or posted.
Of course, that's what the readers are for -- to do the research themselves and post comments with updated information.
This website has the text of a CNN article from last June explaining why
Here's some news from 8/5 (over a month ago!) about the
And here it is again: http://informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtm
A couple seconds with Google is all it took.
Please, submitters, you should be checking your submissions for accuracy and 'datedness'.
"Trolls they were, but filled with the evil will of their master: a fell race..." -- J.R.R. Tolkien on Olog-hai
It seems a little less Star Chamberish, given that we can review their minutes and look at the FAQ that explains their role.
(Don't blame them for SPAM or Web gambling, folks. They're just the cabal of international bankers and Star Chamber judges who decide who gets to map the IP addresses to the domains.)
"Fundamentalism" isn't about divine morality. It's about human authority.
...all about GWB and the war and such...
And of course the time it is taking for Iraq to get a stable post-Hussein government and constitution. Two points to remember people: first, the USA didn't invent the constitution overnight, it really took years of wrangling prior to the Declaration of Independce straight on through the Bill of Rights afterwards and if you really want to get into the lineage of it, it goes back before the Magna Carta. Representative democracy isn't something that happens overnight and it takes a while to be embraced and become something people love and understand the give and take of.
Second, the Iraqis have been under top-down control for a very very long time and the only thing that happened was that the old hatreds were either in favor of only one faction or they were put on hold under threat of action from above. Just like the Soviet Union never solving the hatreds they for years kept from being acted on in open fighting and when the USSR went bye-bye...
It will take a while. But it is far better than being ruled by a guy who was running the place as if he was a two-dimensional stock enemy from a Golan-Globus film or for the ones requiring a recent example, as if they were Howard Saint in The Punisher.
If my grammar and spelling are off, I am [distracted/tired/careless] (take your pick)
So there you go.
And tomorrow the stock exchange will be the human race
I thought the U.S.'s official position was that Iraq was granted "limited" sovereignty by the U.S.
Of course, given that "sovereign" means "One that exercises supreme, permanent authority," it seems to me that "limited sovereignty" is a contradiction in terms, like "almost infinite" or "nearly a virgin..."
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