Syrian Computer Society
Template:SHORTDESC: The Syrian Computer Society (Arabic: الجمعية العلمية السورية للمعلوماتية, romanized: al-Jam‘iyya al-‘Ilmiyya as-Sūriyya lil-Ma‘lūmātiyya) is an organization in Syria. It was founded by Bassel al-Assad in 1989, and was subsequently headed by his brother Bashar al-Assad,[1] who would later become the President of Syria. It acted as Syria's domain name registration authority and was reported to have been closely associated with the Syrian state.[2]
In May 2013, 700 domains registered by Syrians, mostly hosted at servers with IP addresses assigned to the Syrian Computer Society,[3] were reported to have been seized by the U.S. DNS infrastructure operator Network Solutions.[2] The domain names became registered to "OFAC Holding", believed to be a reference to the U.S. federal government's Office of Foreign Assets Control.[3]
Some members of the Syrian Computer Society belonged to the first group of supporters of the Syrian Electronic Army.[4]
References
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External links
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