ICANN has filed a motion to quash in a US court today. The filing is in relation to a court case being brought by victims of terrorism who are trying to get assets of the countries involved. One of the assets that they were trying to go after were the ccTLDs and and IP address assignments to those countries, namely Syria (.sy), Iran (.ir) and North Korea (.kp). You can … [Read more...] about ICANN Tells US Court Country Codes NOT Property
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.Sy Having Issues?
Judging by reports the ccTLD of Syria(.sy) is having issues. This shouldn't come as a surprise to anyone, as the country has been having plenty of issues internally .. (a gross understatement!) TechCrunch report that Art.sy are now redirecting to a .net domain, though they're relying on a HTTP redirect (Can we say "doh!"?). While that might work at *some* levels it's … [Read more...] about .Sy Having Issues?