U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia rejected the lawsuit filed by a group of claimants and that threatening fundamental principles of the global system of domain names. Writs were initiated by Israeli lawyer and human rights activist Nitsana Darshan-Leitner. She demands multimillion compensations in favor of families of terrorist acts’ victims from countries-supporters of terrorism. However, blamed countries are refusing to pay. This is why Darshan-Leitner insists on the appropriation of foreign property and assets of these states. In one of the writs national domains of Iran, Syria and North Korea (.ir, .sy, .kp) and also internationalized domains .سور and .ايران. were considered property.
“While we sympathize with what plaintiffs may have endured, ICANN's role in the domain name system has nothing to do with any property of the countries involved”, John Jeffrey, ICANN’s General Counsel and Secretary said in July. He explained ICANN’s position that national domains couldn’t be considered property and assets of these countries. Judge Royce Lamberth having considered the complaint acknowledged the validity of this position.
«We are pleased that the court ruled in our favor», said John Jerrfey. «The court's ruling demonstrates a technical understanding of the DNS, and the role of ccTLDs in the single, global, interoperable Internet.»
