@politicalfinger @Heliograph "Nobody “ownes” domain names." Correct, same as for phone numbers. "We rent them from an ICANN authorized registrar", yes and no. ICANN regulates gTLD space, not ccTLD space. There are over 1500 TLDs nowadays, including one per country in the world. If you want to be free of ICANN, then choose a ccTLD.