At 07:24 PM 21-03-03 -0500, Eric Brunner-Williams in Portland Maine wrote: I think Infocom and the Elashi's have other problems right now: http://www.cnn.com/2002/US/Southwest/12/18/hamas.arrests/ http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/story.hts/special/terror/local/1064146 -Hank
And to answer the question, no I don't know why the .IQ top-level domain is registered in Richardson Texas, nor do I know why the official state provider uses .NET and .COM instead of .iq.
That is who the IANA delegation was made to:
The SO for the .IQ delegation is (as of 13 Oct '02)
Alani Corp. c/o InfoCom 630 International Parkway Richardson, Texas 75081 United States
Administrative Contact: Saud Alani Alani Corporation c/o InfoCom 630 International Parkway Richardson, Texas 75081 United States Email: alani@mynet.net Voice: +964 1 556 4753 Fax: +1 972 644 8609
Technical Contact: Bayan Elashi InfoCom Corporation 630 International Parkway Suit 100 Richardson, Texas 75081 United States Email: bayan@infocomusa.com Voice: +1 972 644 5363 Fax: +1 972 644 8609
There is no URL for registration services.
I wrote alani@mynet.net, bayan@infocomusa.com on 06.02.03, asking about registration (I'm an ICANN accredited registrar, whoop-de-doo, looking at ccTLDs, but mostly as a co-author of the EPP spec and as an implementor looking for guinea pigs er field trials). ... Anyone interested in getting the .IQ registry operational, so it can be transfered to a _responsible_ sponsoring org with a non-lame operator after the current moment of scheduled down-time is transited? If so, drop me a note.
Eric