U.S. Court of Appeals sustains .IR ccTLD lower court ruling

By James Barnley Posted in Uncategorized

Posted on August 5, 2016October 6, 2020

Early August 2016 U.S. Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit issued its decision in Weinstein vs. Iran, a case in which families of terror victims sought to have ICANN turn over control of Iran’s .IR ccTLD to plaintiffs. The unanimous decision of the three judge panel stated, “On ICANN’s motion, the district court quashed …

U.S. Court Quashes Attempts to Attach ccTLDs: Federal Judge Agrees with ICANN

By James Barnley Posted in Cyber Security Governance

Posted on November 13, 2014

12 November 2014 A U.S. federal court has agreed with the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) that the country code Top-Level Domains (ccTLDs) are not property subject to attachment. Claimants filed writs of attachment to seize from ICANN, the ccTLDs for Iran (.IR), Syria (.SY) and North Korea (.KP), (as well as …