Re: Owning a name

[Paul Ferguson <fergdawgster () mykolab com>]

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On 6/27/2014 7:49 AM, Collin Anderson wrote:

> On Fri, Jun 27, 2014 at 7:50 AM, David Conrad <drc () virtualized org>
> wrote:
>
> > Yes. ccTLDs are treated as national sovereign resources.
>
> By whom and where?
>
> Regardless, there are 'State Sponsors of Terrorism'-related
> amendments to the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act that come into
> play here.

"The IANA is not in the business of deciding what is and what is not a
country. The selection of the ISO 3166 list as a basis for country
code top-level domain names was made with the knowledge that ISO has a
procedure for determining which entities should be and should not be
on that list."  - Jon Postel, RFC 1591

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