> I think something like this should have remained within government. Deregulation here wasn’t necessary. The legal doctrine that established a nexus in the US

> I think something like this should have remained within government. Deregulation here wasn’t necessary. The legal doctrine that established a nexus in the US simply because ICANN was controlled by the US government had long-term geopolitical repercussions. In the lead up, the FBI seized the domains belonging to sites that otherwise had no ties to the US under this doctrine. I suspect the long-term fear was that other countries would deploy their own root name server, which would not in the American national interest.