InfoCom Corporation was a Web hosting service company founded by five brothers in 1992. It was initially based in Dallas, Texas, and before its dissolution it was based in Richardson, Texas.
At its peak, it hosted approximately 500 mostly Arab websites. The company hosted the domain .iq for the country of Iraq. The company hosted websites for Muslim organizations in the United States, including the Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development, the Islamic Association for Palestine, the Islamic Society of North America, and the Muslim Students Association. The company also hosted websites for entities abroad, including the Qatari television station Al Jazeera, the Qatari newspaper al-Sharq, and Berzeit (Palestinian University of the West Bank).
InfoCom Corporation achieved notoriety for its connections with terrorist organizations Al Qaeda and Hamas and with the Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development. The former owners have been convicted of a multitude of charges involving funneling money to and doing business with terrorist organizations. Ghassan Elashi, in particular, was the chairman of the Holy Land Foundation.
The company was convicted of doing business with terrorist groups. The corporation, already defunct, was sentenced to two years probation. Ihsan Elashi and the company itself remain on the U.S. Department of Commerce's Denied Persons List, with an expiration date of June 29, 2056; the list gives Ihsan Elashi's current address as FCI Seagoville.
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