It gets worse, what if it was organized crime, instead of or in addition to spy agencies, engaging in such activities, which of course they are. Spy agencies are normally engaged in criminal activity too, so that's not what makes it worse.

What makes it worse is that ICANN has allowed itself on various levels including registrars and the DNS itself to be increasingly co-opted by organized crime. ICANN's insatiable hunger for money is largely to blame, and criminals have long known how to exploit such a weakness. Read this current article on ICANNWatch.org and follow the link in Fergie's subsequent comment, or my more accurate link to RBNBlog which follows.

The US Government has always been ICANN's overseer, have they just been asleep at the switch? Isn't it ironic that the organized crime Russian Business Network, with likely ties to the Russian government (and they have recently moved some of their activities to mainland China), is co-opting various critical levels of the internet? This is going to turn out badly. -g