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Indeed it looks like I was wrong and the DoC maintains some nominal control of ICANN, but it doesn't appear that it has ever exercised any (nor do I believe it has legal authority to do so). I saw a DoC purchase order to ICANN for maintaining the internet (price: $0) this morning, let's see if I can find it again.


Well, there was something in the news recently about a US senator (or representive?) pulling some strings to kill a proposal for a new .xxx top level domain.

However, I think the US government has generally done a good job of not interfering. I trust the US much more than I would trust the UN. I could just see the UN trying to impose internet taxes (world taxes have been proposed before at the UN). Plus if some US politician screws up, someone new will get voted into office to fix the problem, while on the otherhand, half of the UN is run by dictators.