Iraq–Internet
Source: AP (via FindLaw)
Iraqi Sovereignty Won’t Extend to the Web
“More than 240 places have their own two-letter Internet country codes, from ‘.ac’ for Ascension Island to ‘.zw’ for Zimbabwe. There’s even ‘.ps’ for the Palestinian territories. But the domain assigned to Iraq, ‘.iq,’ is stuck in a strange bureaucratic limbo – the company that had administered it is under U.S. criminal indictment – and could remain there for months. As a result, if Iraq’s government, national institutions or regular Iraqis want a Web site, they need to use international domains, such as ‘.com,’ ‘.org’ or ‘.net’, which are maintained in the United States.”

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