An update, apparently writs of attachment were sent for not only .ir, but also .sy and .kp ccTLDs as well, based on separate cases related to support for terrorism. ICANN has filed a motion to quash the writs and taken the position that the domains are not assets.
Press: http://www.securityweek.com/country-specific-web-domains-cant-be-seized-icann Court Documents: https://www.icann.org/resources/pages/icann-various-2014-07-30-en On Fri, Jun 27, 2014 at 1:54 AM, Mark Rudholm <[email protected]> wrote: > On 06/26/2014 10:14 PM, Collin Anderson wrote: > >> On Thu, Jun 26, 2014 at 10:00 PM, John Levine <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> I've been looking for the case in PACER, and don't see >>> anything filed this year against ICANN so the case doesn't even exist. >>> >>> Seth Charles Ben HAIM, et al., Plaintiffs, v. The ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF >> IRAN, >> et al., Defendants. Civil Action No. 02-1811 (RCL) >> > > It seems to me that even if the ccTLD delegations were removed from the > root DNS zone, all sysadmins in Iran would just add the ns.irnic.ir NS > record to their cache, effectively ignoring ICANN. I bet a lot of > sysadmins outside Iran would do the same thing, since it makes sense to > refer to IRNIC for Iranian DNS regardless of any court ruling. > > Similarly, they'd just keep using their current network numbers. It's not > like ARIN would be able to give them to someone else. Nobody would want > them. And a lot of us would continue to route those numbers to Iran. > > Courts have shown time and again that they don't understand that ICANN is > a coordinator, not an authority. > -- *Collin David Anderson* averysmallbird.com | @cda | Washington, D.C.
