Iraq’s media commission and the U.S.-led administration in Iraq want to set up Web addresses using the domain code “.IQ” as the final tag. That would mean addresses for Web pages would be distinctively identified on the Internet with Iraq’s own country code.
The Iraqi chairman of the National Communications & Media Commission, Siyamend Othman, said the .IQ domain name would allow Iraqis to stake a “virtual flag” in the worldwide Internet community. It is “an important tangible and symbolic milestone for this nation, as well as the freedom and hopes of the Iraqi people,” he wrote in a letter dated May 20 to the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN).
SOURCE: USA Today
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