In the past few days, you may have heard statements such as "The US government gave up the rights to the Internet on October 1st". Well, that is a bit of an exaggeration but there is a real story behind it. We will be brief today and make it simple.

1. There is a non-profit organization called ICANN. If you own a domain name, you would have received occasional notices from them to update your ownership information for your domain name(s).
2. ICANN stands for Corporation for As...