Lawfare blog covers an interesting case that attempts to answer the question Are Top-level Domains Property? On December 28 [2015], the Justice Department filed an amicus brief in Weinstein v. Islamic Republic of Iran, a case pending before the D.C. Circuit. At issue is whether country-code top-level domains are the property of those countries’ foreign governments. Does a country’s government own the country-code top level domain that represents that country? DOJ argues first that ccTLD...
