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How would that help? The government could still block domains registered by people in adversarial countries.

Personally I would not want the US government controlling and micro-managing who gets to have a .com domain.

I certainly wasn't nominating the US government. something more like international NGO. the us can do whatever it wants with the .us root, just like all the other ISO country code roots.

So, ICANN?

the internet corporations for names and numbers was established specifically to coordinate the for profit registrar model. but sure, an organization like that with a charter to simply manage the namespace directly.

So, ICANN. That's what they do; for-profit registrars are only a small part of it.

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