Texas Company's Legal Troubles Hold .iq In Limbo (http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/06/29/0430212)
It seems ironic that a Texas-based president took control of the physical Iraq and a Texas-based company took control of the cyber Iraq. I wish the source of this article was a little more reliable and complete. I would love to know how a company got control of a national root domain in the first place. I wonder what Rwanda is doing with their root domain. ;-)
http://EvilAnd.rw
Actually, this isn't uncommon. Tuvalu, or .tv, sold their rights to VeriSign, who pulled an advertising blitz a few years back hoping to make a few companies sign up. (See www.tnt.tv) .cc (Cocos) and .bz (Belize) did the same.
And anyhow, see http://www.nic.rw/cgi-bin/index.pl.