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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. Re:Working hard by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    The EU already has free speech violations.

    http://slashdot.org/story/04/06/17/1628207/eu-pushes-to-limit-internet-speech
    http://tech.slashdot.org/story/14/07/27/1329243/in-france-most-comments-on-gaza-conflict-yanked-from-mainstream-news-sites

    Despite the problems with ICANN being born out of the U.S.A., it may be the best we have.