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Re: Iraqi Internet communications still working 3/21/03

  • From: Stephen J. Wilcox
  • Date: Fri Mar 21 19:30:23 2003 
On Fri, 21 Mar 2003, Sean Donelan wrote:

> 
> The main Iraqi network connections are still functioning.  Uruklink.net,
> Iraq2000.com, Baghdadlink.net, etc systems are responding.  The public web
> servers appear to be very congested or non-responsive; but because I can
> reach other systems (mail, dns, etc)  I suspect people are overloading
> the webservers.

My DNS shows www.thosedomains to be in iana-reserved space and dns is hosted at
european satellite base stations ??

Steve


> 
> And to answer the question, no I don't know why the .IQ top-level domain
> is registered in Richardson Texas, nor do I know why the official state
> provider uses .NET and .COM instead of .iq.
> 
> Since either the Iraqi government or the US government could shutdown the
> relatively limited external links from Iraq; I'm guessing both governments
> have decided its worth leaving the Internet links in place.  Or its not
> worth the hassle of trying to shut them down.
> 
>