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Countries Don't Own Their Internet Domains, ICANN Says

Posted by timothy on from the do-they-meta-own-them? dept.

angry tapir writes The Internet domain name for a country doesn't belong to that country — nor to anyone, according to ICANN. Plaintiffs who successfully sued Iran, Syria and North Korea as sponsors of terrorism want to seize the three countries' ccTLDs (country code top-level domains) as part of financial judgments against them. The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, which oversees the Internet, says they can't do that because ccTLDs aren't even property.

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  1. Syria by rossdee · · Score: 5, Funny

    I think the ownership of the country of Syria is in dispute, never mind the tld domain name

  2. Maybe it's me... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...but I was under the impression they all belonged to the City of London police?

  3. Re:Of course ccTLDs are property..! by just_another_sean · · Score: 3, Funny

    I'm not sure I can go along with that. No disrespect to Mr. Hanks, but, yeah, just no.

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