US hands internet control to ICANN

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19 pointsrishabhd4 comments

Might not be popular to post this but the decision to do this makes me angry as an American. Domains we created should not be handled by the international community. We paid for this with our tax dollars!

That's not how the internet works. Domain names are not the internet.

Exactly. I came here to learn why so many media talking heads and others are losing their cookies over this.

https://xkcd.com/932/

Obvious jokes aside, given that most people wouldn't be able to use the internet if the DNS suddenly stopped working, there may not be much practical difference between DNS an "the internet" for most people.

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