[Lazamataz]

ICANN is the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers. While I disagree with ceding control, it’s much ado about nothing. They literally manage the assignment of internet addresses and DNS. The worst that will happen with this is that it’s likely we’ll see a substantial uptick in spam since foreign entities will likely buy up tracts of American IP addresses to spam from the comfort of their own borders.

I don't like ceding ANYTHING related to the internet, but rarestia is right.

My credentials are 25 years in internet/web IT.

[itsahoot]

My credentials are 25 years in internet/web IT.

Yeah everyone uses the dark net right? Ninety nine percent of people use the internet exactly like we used to use a phone, no technical ability required. If you only need to talk to geeks then maybe it won't matter. You do know of corse that Domain names have a small fee attached, what happens when it becomes a big fee?