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You’ve been making me reach and clearing things up. Thank you.

Okay, each .[blank] [such as .com] is run by a registry via ICANN’s permission.

ICANN’s delegation process:

Registry Operator Code of Conduct.

That can be modified after Sept 30.

So long as Obama controls the Justice Department, ICANN has full legal authority over all registries. So this IS a serious matter.

After Obama leaves office? Other nations can still keep ICANN as their legal overseer and link up with China as the hub. [China already has the infrastructure in place.]

Thus, if Trump doesn’t get along with their ‘hate speech’ suppression — cyberwar due to an international dispute.

We could even end up needing a firewall from nations that defer to ICANN.

Urg ...

I goofed up on an important word up above.

Obama’s Justice Department could accomodate defacto authority so that ICANN can accomodate the UN’s directives against hate speech.

Since that is treaty-based, many federal justices would claim their hands are tied — out of their jurisdiction.

Things could get mucked up by ICANN in various ways that we've described in the thread. The domain to IP mapping is not directly under their control, but like you say, the registrar is under their legal control. So they could demand that registrars ban domains or something like that. It seems very doubtful that a registrar would do that, but the legal authority makes it possible.

If they did that to me, the first thing I would do is get a very high priced lawyer and advertising firm to get my IP address out to the public. Or if I were not wealthy (that's basically my case) I would take to the broader internet and get people to link to my IP. Then my server provider could try to cut off my IP.

Unlikely, but suppose they did. Next step is to put my content on my dreamhost server and get people to link to that. Then I might get kicked off of that (unlikely). Let's say that happens. Next I would get on some server in the Netherlands or somewhere that never kicks anyone off. Granted I would be in unsavory company but it is extremely unlikely that my account and content would be erased from that server. I can do all of that without my "banned" domain by using some other domain, or more like a subdomain where the domain owner allows unlimited subdomains, or just using IP addresses.