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The Internet is already run by taxes of a sort. Some amount of money from your domain name registrations already goes to ICANN.


True, but I think this is simply to fund the orgainization to keep it running, right? I mean I donīt think ICANN is making a profit or is spending the income on anything not related to managing the root servers.

Besides, domains are dirt cheap to register compared to their potential worth (currently up to about $1 million for very common english word domains). I picture the UN doing a lot more damage if they get the opportunity.