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Fool wrote

I think there are versions in PR China, DPR Korea, and Iran, amongst alternatives.

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Internet spawned from US Military Research so it's not really that weird that ICANN is affiliated with US Government.

Internet not affiliated with ICANN is the publically reachable parts of what is called the Deep Web.

TOR and similar networks use alternatives to ICANN. However TOR is strongly affiliated with US Military (it was developed by US Navy and made public so they could hide behind public end nodes.)

It's technically possible to start an alternative DNS root, but it would need to reach some sort of critical mass for any OS to include it by default, and as such only useful for people interested enough to go searching beyond the default available.

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