So wait, is this satire? It started out very interestingly until his paranoia kicked in: This guy's entire proof of his theory are links to his previous writing. ICANN has been around since 1998, handling this on behalf of the US government from the west side of Los Angeles (not far from the Tattle Tale Lounge, actually). I'm not saying that's a dramatic improvement, but at least it's based on external evidence. More importantly, domain name servers are everywhere. There may only be 13 TLD servers in the world, but you're not directly pointing at them all day. If they all went down, you wouldn't be typing everything -- you'd be pointing at old TLDs. You wouldn't notice for years, unless your fetish is brand-new TLDs. This is a FUD piece. "Oooh, the scaaaaaary Americans!" Yeah, whatever. Your nation can invent the next robust, fault-tolerant innovation. Why couldn't there be more about what actually happened to the TLDs of obsolete nations, instead of a couple sentences each? Why not tell the story of Tongo's deal for .to? Sidenote: the Tattle Tale is amazing on Saturday nights -- scary folks signing karaoke in front of a pool table. Start at Menchies for frozen yogurt and free plastic spoons before you go drinking, then sober up at Jack in the Box. It's that part of Jefferson where it merges with the fabled Sepulveda (well south of Pico), filled with Culver City lovin'. The Internet(...) is effectively run by the American government and its finger-puppets.