Iraqi Internet communications still working 3/21/03

Sat Mar 22 17:28:41 UTC 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: alani at mynet.net
>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: bayan at infocomusa.com
>Voice: +1 972 644 5363
>Fax: +1 972 644 8609
>
>There is no URL for registration services.
>
>I wrote alani at mynet.net, bayan at infocomusa.com 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