I’m posting your excellent question here. It’s the most reasonbable ‘easy fix’ yet:
“Why can’t a “dark” web be set up to provide conservative control over the valuable to ‘mericans parts of the web?”
[And I’ll repost the anwswer. But good thinking. FRegards ...]
If we start a ‘dark’ website ...
That’s one of those big ‘uknowns’. ICANN has a lot of expertise, copyright protection, and I would imagine patents.
And frankly, I wouldn’t want to tangle with them. They have experience dating back to ‘98. No one has anywhere near that level of experience. They have code stached away that would blow our minds.
Here was their first top scientist, Jon Postel:
Before the establishment of ICANN, the IANA function of administering registries of Internet protocol identifiers (including the distributing top-level domains and IP addresses) was performed by Jon Postel, a Computer Science researcher who had been involved in the creation of ARPANET, first at UCLA and then at the University of Southern California’s Information Sciences Institute (ISI).[4][5] In 1997 Postel testified before Congress that this had come about as a “side task” to this research work.[6] The Information Sciences Institute was funded by the U.S. Department of Defense, as was SRI International’s Network Information Center, which also performed some assigned name functions.[7]
[They located their headquarters near his house. He and other ARPANET pioneers were the ones who got them rolling.]
ICANN would find allies in Google, Facebook, Twitter, Soros, and China.
So long as they remain in California and under US jurisdiction, we could most likely find a way to keep them honest. They are a utility with a monopoly.
But if they go overseas and team up with hackers there is no telling what kind of cyber-war would result if we don’t give in.