Countries Don't Own Their Internet Domains, ICANN Says 113
angry tapir writes The Internet domain name for a country doesn't belong to that country — nor to anyone, according to ICANN. Plaintiffs who successfully sued Iran, Syria and North Korea as sponsors of terrorism want to seize the three countries' ccTLDs (country code top-level domains) as part of financial judgments against them. The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, which oversees the Internet, says they can't do that because ccTLDs aren't even property.
Re:Identifiers (Score:5, Informative)
That's like saying I "own" the variable "x", and that all graphics programmers now need to pay me to lease use of that variable name.
Because that's never happened before. [slashdot.org]
Re:its only property when its the RIAA. (Score:2, Informative)
Domains and ccTLDs are not the same things.