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.iq Is Part of the Spoils
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Everything here is sinister: current .iq situation, offers of help, and no better perspective.
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The title here, and the press coverage elsewhere, is unfortunate. There are classes of cctld registries with operational issues, .iq is only slightly stranger than most. Co-location of the corporate, and operational forms of the delegations of two belligerent states within one of them was not good long-term planning, by the delegees, or by the IANA, and it isn't improved by a period of actual belligerency between the associated states.
I can't say that I don't think that .us couldn't be improved by well-intentioned folks in Bagdad, the current operator leaves a bit to be desired, but that shouldn't be the first mechanism at hand.
I think the IANA's re-delegation claim queue should be transparent to the cctld constituency, or some body to which it delegates this responsibility. I would not like to see it become yet another venue for gaming the process, and assist in the commercial repurposing of cctlds, for whatever reason. The motivation for an "auction-off-iq" is not very different from other beneficiary claims made by many of the repurposed cctld operators.
Eric Brunner-Williams
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