ICANN was NOT handed over to the UN! That entire myth was pure fear-mongering by Ted Cruz and his cronies. And they never claimed it would (or did) happen, only that it might happen -- with no explanation as to how beyond, "free market = UN"). ICAAN is a private Corporation who was merely receiving legal 'guidance' (advice) via a voluntary contract with the U.S. government. They were under no legal or contractual obligation to accept or act on advice from the U.S. (or any other government). Furthermore, ICANN exerts no more control over the Internet than this post does. They merely maintain a few lists -- literally some small text files that are already replicated countless times across numerous other servers -- which can be referred to by some DNS servers if they choose to utilize them (along with lists from competing companies). ICANN and all of the information it hosts could completely vanish right this moment and the vast, VAST majority of Internet users wouldn't even notice. The ONLY effects it would have is that a few server administrators would eventually notice errors indicating their local cache of the files can no longer be updated; compelling them to add one or more of ICANN's competitors to their update list (assuming they hadn't already), and people attempting to get "permission" from ICANN to have a new, and probably useless, Top Level Domain (TLD) added to ICANN's text file (such as .jeff, or .jason) would instead use one of ICANN's competitors and save a LOT of money in the process. In fact, the entire concept of TLDs is dying off. It was created long before the concept of search engines existed and is rarely ever utilized by Internet users today. Seriously, how often to you actually type ".com" or ".org" or ".net" into your browser?

It boggles my mind that so many free market proponents not only believe the Internet has been a Socialist (government controlled) system, but also support keeping it that way; specifically under the Obama regime's control. o.O