A Tale of Two ccTLDs
For reasons that probably surpass understanding, I tried to prevent ICANN from revoking the delegation of the .iq namespace, then "dark" due to the unrelated arrest of it operators by the United States, and nominally provisioned from Texas. For totally unrelated reasons in the same period I happened to notice that the .my namespace was "dark" due to the abandonment of it by its operators, and nominally provisioned from London.
I still think that ICANN erred in precipitously acting on instruction by an aggressor state, and failed in its broadest and best mission of delegation of resources that enable civil society to use the ipv4 address space, its protocols, and its namespaces, in handing over the .iq namespace to anything other than a scrupulously neutral and constructive custodian during the war and post-war occupation.
I also still think that ICANN errs in failing the same broadest and best mission of delegation of resources that enable civil society to use the ipv4 address space, its protocols, and its namespaces, in failing to revoke the delegation of the .my namespace from a military dictatorship.
That's my two beads worth.
