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The Washington DC Court of Appeals has decided that terrorism victims are not entitled to lay claim to a country's top-level domain in lieu of payment as it would pose a threat to the stability of the internet. The long-running case stems from an Iran-financed bombing in Jerusalem back in 1997. Lawyers for nine US citizens …

  1. NoneSuch Silver badge
    Big Brother

    "the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act which shields foreign governments from US court rulings."

    Unless you are the NSA.

  2. Version 1.0 Silver badge

    That's a sound ruling

    Playing tit for tat has consequences - had this been allowed we could easily have seen a grab for another domain based on the King David hotel bombing and then, well - the list goes on doesn't it?

    Might as well shut down the entire Internet.

  3. Trigonoceps occipitalis

    .scot

    Can we have this to repay all the money sent from England?

  4. Destroy All Monsters Silver badge
    Paris Hilton

    Weird

    Iran-financed bombing in Jerusalem back in 1997

    Wasn't that bombing done by Hamas, which is actually Sunni and thus unlikely to receive much financial backing by Shia Iran?

    Is this another one of the "Iran is responsible for all the evil done to Israel since the time of Pharao and also for Hitler's socks" US political trials?

    Eagerly awaiting a lawsuit against the good Saudis now that those "28 pages" have been published.

  5. adam payne

    Allowing this would open up a can of worms that really shouldn't be opened.

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