Because other governments found it unfair that one country (the US) could control the global namespace.

It should probably belong better under the umbrella of the UN.

Eh - the UN doesn't really have a good track record with things like this. See the ITU as an example.

The ITU has done just fine, as far as I can tell.

Ah yes, UN, excellent idea https://unwatch.org/un-sells-3-womens-rights-bodies-oil-rich...

Perhaps like democracy it is the least bad option.

I fear for the .tw domain space if ICANN were to fall under the purview of the UN in any way.

The sad part is, giving up control doesn't seem to have stopped other nations from slowly severing themselves from the global conversation like the Great Firewall and Russianet.

Until homo sapiens evolves past tribal effects, those sorts of things will continue happening. Lamentable but symptomatic.

And now look at how many TLDs we have.

What's so bad about having maths TLDs?

People having a passing familiarity with all the TLDs increases security. You know to trust Microsoft.com but it would be easy trick someone into clicking a link to Microsoft.c0m or some such.

There is no c0m but it’d be more like Microsoft.ninja or Microsoft.fun

Microsoft.trust?

Then I know I’m being phished!

micro.soft