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

  • From: Hank Nussbacher
  • Date: Sat Mar 22 12:32:00 2003

At 07:24 PM 21-03-03 -0500, Eric Brunner-Williams in Portland Maine wrote:

I think Infocom and the Elashi's have other problems right now:
http://www.cnn.com/2002/US/Southwest/12/18/hamas.arrests/
http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/story.hts/special/terror/local/1064146

-Hank


> 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.

That is who the IANA delegation was made to:

The SO for the .IQ delegation is (as of 13 Oct '02)

Alani Corp.
c/o InfoCom
630 International Parkway
Richardson, Texas 75081
United States

Administrative Contact:
Saud Alani
Alani Corporation
c/o InfoCom
630 International Parkway
Richardson, Texas 75081
United States
Email: [email protected]
Voice: +964 1 556 4753
Fax: +1 972 644 8609

Technical Contact:
Bayan Elashi
InfoCom Corporation
630 International Parkway
Suit 100
Richardson, Texas 75081
United States
Email: [email protected]
Voice: +1 972 644 5363
Fax: +1 972 644 8609

There is no URL for registration services.

I wrote [email protected], [email protected] on 06.02.03, asking about
registration (I'm an ICANN accredited registrar, whoop-de-doo, looking
at ccTLDs, but mostly as a co-author of the EPP spec and as an implementor
looking for guinea pigs er field trials).
...
Anyone interested in getting the .IQ registry operational, so it can be
transfered to a _responsible_ sponsoring org with a non-lame operator
after the current moment of scheduled down-time is transited? If so,
drop me a note.

Eric

[1] http://www.icann.org/general/pn-report-11feb00.htm